Elli lifts a hand to fiddle with her hair again, until her other hand rises and pushes that hand down.

"I had a twin brother," she says, after a moment. "We moved into a house that -- actually from what I heard when I was shepherding, I think you are familiar with. Bastien Mayfair's old house. My family were new money from Boston and sort of living a dream. Manor in Scotland, how romantic, right? There were secret passages all over the place that my brother and I would explore."