[There's this moment before she "gets it", like, dang, Protestants don't have confession either, what's next, is nothing sacred?! Then:] Ahaha. Laity can give eucharist in emergencies, but only God can forgive sins.

[She sits down a little ways away, where they don't really have to look at each other every second. Feels cozy.]

Carrie had wanted to share her story with me too, not for absolution, just so it would live on if she did not survive starvation. ...I was a disappointment, but in our present case, it is not as if the circumstances can grow worse.

[UNTIL THEY GET YEETED INTO THE OCEAN PLATFORM...]