Mmm...I would imagine it must have. Typically, one does not enter into a contract with beings such as these sins unless they have very few options left to them. Situations and circumstances beyond human control.

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I wonder... Those bodies we reassembled the week of Easter...Katerina said that they died because they did "a very bad thing", correct? At the time, I thought perhaps they were partially responsible for whatever tragedy befell this town. But with what we know now...I wonder if perhaps they were among the survivors, along with Katerina and Miata. And that their transgression was something which went against Katerina's plan or perhaps even the contract itself.