[Why don’t they? Why, indeed. Now, Thomas frowns.]

Morgan can sense souls. See them. Do… other things to them. And he tells me that stars do not have souls — that if the sun had one, he would have taken it long before now.

[That was probably a joke, but it settles unwell.]

That is his logic. Jacob believes him, too. The girls? They humor me, but I do not think they believe me, either. But at least they are kinder about it.