"It's alright. I'd love to go in a week."

"I will send you the details, then! It's gonna be an all-day thing, sunny with a pool and stuff – you might want to bring swimwear – and then snacks in the evening."

"Awesome! I'll be there. Can I invite Willow and Matt, too?"

"Yeah! It's a pretty big place, can hold a bunch of people – like last time."

"Cool." She looks at Theo. "And you're not coming?"

"Probably not?" he shrugs. "I mean, I might, but I doubt it and I'm not sure how much you want… late RSVPs or whatever."

"Oh, it should be no problem!" responds Evelyn. "Feel free to just drop in if you decide to. Could just come for the evening if you're not up for a swim-party."

Nod. "Thanks."

"And by the way did you see those miracles on the news?"

"I did!" she responds. "Kinda weird."

"Yeah. It's maybe a terrible thought but I kinda want to get healed too so I can figure out what's up with that. Everyone says they just wake up alright, though."

"I didn't hear any – uh, maybe many – of them saying that they had some sort of religious experience? And I'd expect it to be well-publicized if there were some new miracle drug, so I dunno." Shrug.

"Miracle drug that fixes everything from broken bones to degenerative diseases. Everything except, apparently, cancer."

"Apparently," she agrees. "Maybe it does cell regrowth, or maybe they just haven't tested it on cancer yet? Seems a bit implausible, but so does the whole thing, really. Bit too much for a coincidence, not really enough for… whatever it'd be if not a coincidence."

"A pattern?"

"Yeah, but it's weird that something would heal so many things, so well and so suddenly advanced from before? So, a pattern but with the only explanations being… really implausible?"

"I'm not sure it's as implausible as that many coincidences, but yeah."

"I haven't really been able to come up with any hypotheses that aren't laughably ridiculous."

"I mean, miracle drug or drugs seems to be– about it?"

"Aliens," she starts ticking off fingers. "Vampires. Angels. Demons. The simulation hypothesis, with a rather more active simulator."

"Mm, so, hyper-advanced medicine, the supernatural, and… gods?"

"That seems to sum it up, yeah."

"I mean, I'm currently… not expecting it to be the supernatural or gods? That seems somewhat less likely than 'coincidence', to be honest."

"Well yeah but it's no longer completely implausible."

"In comparison, I guess? This whole thing just seems really implausible, though, and then it went and happened."