"There was," she said. "There always is. That's what I've been yelling at you for, isn't it? He decided he was going to marry Yuna, and she agreed if he'd turn himself in. And he said he was just going to marry her anyway, and drag her off, and I was not going to let him touch her. And he said, well, if you're so eager to die, let's get to it."

Deep breath.

"Afterwards, the Guado, they ... they freaked out. We told them. He killed his own father. He was plotting and murdering and we had proof. They destroyed it. We were to stand trial for what we did. We ran, all the way back to the woods. We fell under the ice. Sin came, then. I woke up in the desert. Bikanel Island, where I grew up. Sin ... does that, sometimes. Carries people for miles and miles in its undertow."

Easier to talk about Sin than go on with her story.