Pyrrha nods. "Gideon's baby," she says, "Mine by marriage rights." She goes right along with it, at ease.

The end of the world. Even their relationship, one of the strongest, wasn't bump free, wasn't free of stresses and stressors. John coming back. Gideon being lent out. John's "accident." Melbourne. They're very real, not smoothed over and ignored because he's dead and gone. The relationship means more because they were there.

"We weren't a common type of relationship, that's for certain. Soulmates would be one way to put it," Pyrrha says, "Doesn't insult any others, even the other ones we had."