"Right? All things considered, the fact he helped me at all was an improvement on the original design," Wash says, "And he did help me. Sacrificed himself."

Church hadn't really thought he was a ghost, not for real. He knew what he was doing.

That's...that's mostly enough to help North get caught up, help him understand.

"Now, here's the question of the hour: are you from the past of a parallel but nearly identical dimension? Or is this time travel? And if it's time travel, did I just create a paradox by telling you all that?"

It would've been too exhausting hiding it.

(He's not...he's not telling him about South).