Chloe hadn't actually seen the child ghosts: she and Billy had scarpered at the first sign of magic fire. She's still kind of mad about it, though, that Methuselah had sent them in there without adequate warning.

She gives him a thoughtful look. “Well, every time I've heard that before and called bullshit it's turned out to at least be sort of true, so…” That tree of life in Shambhala had done something after all. The water from Ubar, too. And now she's out here eating raw meat because of her super endurance, so yeah she does believe it a bit. “Something killed those people. You felt it too.”