Uh Huh.

Welp here goes nothing. "We think that our friend Mr. Ayers may have gotten himself into something quite dark. He was researching ancient cults before he left for Ethiopia, and I believe he hoped to find more about their origins here. And I don't think his work was ended when he died, I think that others may have followed his example. And - I worry that he may have uncovered something. Something not on the side of the angels. And the fruits of whatever he was working on is causing enough harm overseas - deaths, I think, in service to this cult that he bolstered, that - we don't really feel capable of just ignoring the situation. Even if it might be very dangerous."

...Berhane considers this.

"You should come back to the nunnery. This is not a thing I wish to discuss in public."

"That sounds good." Let's go there, then.

Berhane goes to the nunnery, leaves them in a room while she speaks privately with Mother Superior, then takes them to a quiet room in the nunnery. "Can I persuade you to leave Dallol alone?" she says. "There is nothing good for you there. There is a great evil, and the Ayers expedition tried to awake it."
 
 
 
 

Such A Face About Translating This Conversation.

"And now it is quiet and there is not a problem. The trouble will only happen if someone disturbs it."

yes yes lev was a member of an evil torture cult he did not make good decisions when he was twenty-three

"How sure are you that it isn't still awake."

"It has not moved since the volcano erupted by the grace of God."

Okay, by "the volcano erupted by the grace of God" Behane definitely means "we SUPER made the volcano erupt."

"I am in that case very grateful for the grace of God," Mordred says.

"Unfortunately, there is a problem. It's not here where you can see it, it's elsewhere, but it's not sleeping. We have already lost two friends to it. One was killed. The other was - something else. Her mind was taken. And we can't stand by and watch that continue happening to people, not if there might be something we can do about it. But we won't know what that is without more information."

Berhane looks troubled by what Anemone says. "Are you saying that elsewhere the Mouth has-- awoken?"

"Yes."

"--I will be upfront with you. I want to help. But the last time white people appeared in Mersa Fatma talking about the Mouth they worshiped it."

"I am saying that one month ago, I stood in the home of one of the highest members of this cult, and saw the room in which they cut up men to be fed to it. And saw the mouth. Heard its song. They're trying to force more people to bow to it, or to be fed to it. And I cannot go home until I have some idea how to stop it."

"The mouth killed our friend. It spat at me." - she shows where the acid burned her - "It killed people we love." She gestures at Lev and glances at Oswald. "We want to stop it."

Zoe is trying VERY HARD to remember literally any of the details of the night when she saw the mouth.

The details she is remembering... do not seem like they will be helpful here.

Lev feels like the people he loves were really not the typical case of the Mouth killing people, but okay.

"They took my sister. I nearly died at their hands a month ago. Please help us stop them from taking anyone else."

"If you have questions about what we know we can answer them, we realize that 'trust us we're here to stop it' is a lot to ask," Mordred says, on the basis that he doesn't have a better way to prove good intent than offering to share information.

"Uh, full disclosure, I am a former member of the evil cult?"

SKEPTICISM.

"Lev, you didn't know it was an evil cult until all your friends were eaten by mouths."

"I mean I probably could have figured it out if I weren't-- not the point. I saw the-- thing get summoned, and-- please please help us do something about it, this is not a thing that should be in the world."

Berhane thinks about it carefully and nods.

"I want you to know," she says, "that if you betray a nun to demons, you are going to spend a bunch of extra time in Purgatory and I will not ask the priest to perform the liturgy of the dead for your souls."