Now Matt looked at her. “I was afraid you were going to be condescending, showing off your abilities and your body all the time.”
“I thought you’d expect me to conform to your religious beliefs.”
“I gave up on that long ago. But I had my doubts. I knew your abilities, but not how much you’d lived. How much you understood about death. Until…”
Carrie said, “Until I mentioned my sister.”
“Her name was Adriana?”
“Yes.”
A silence stretched on for several seconds. Then Matt said, “My sister was Juliette. She died, too. Back on Earth, several years ago.”
“I’m so sorry.”
“So I knew you understood. How much I wanted to save Varis and her child. How concerned I was for Sarbin.”
“I tried to bail on you when you suggested that business of going into the womb.”
“I knew you wouldn’t.”
“How’d you know?” Carrie asked.
“Because I wouldn’t have, either.”