Beverly's arm wraps around Ashley, holding her as close as the young woman will let her. Listening to the story nearly breaks her heart. For all that Ashley leaves out so many of the details, they've already talked through a lot of it based on what Ashley was told would happen. Beverly can imagine it's just as hard to experience as it was to see or hear about, if not worse.

"But they didn't manage it, did they?" she points out softly. She might not know all of the details, this wasn't something she and Helen ever spoke about, but she does know Helen. If any of this had ever come to pass for her friend, Beverly would have known. Rather, if everyone had been destroyed, if the Sanctuary Helen kept safe had ever been destroyed by Ashley or whoever had control of her, things would have been much different for Helen. Somehow, Beverly has always had a feeling that Helen came from a point farther along the timeline than Ashley did. This only serves to confirm it, for better or worse.