They know who they are, huh? In that sense, maybe they're a little more real than Magolor is That's not something he'd ever cop to . . . though he can recognize the liiiiiiittle bit of projection he'd inserted into his own response to her sadness just then. Just a little.

But he smiles up at her with a more understated kind of sunniness.

"Nope, they're a hundred percent real! That's all I'm trying to say. When they first became what they are now, I'm sure they also felt like their experiences were lies. But those experiences make them who they are, and since they're real, all of it's real in the end."