No. That, too, is Megalos’s voice. Sacrificing Stella to the god, I would emerge from this crucible without an identity, and then why not? Why not just embrace his insanity? What would I have left? To have missed her first death is a sin I may eventually forget. To cause her second? No. Even if she is not Stella, not in the way I wanted her to be and Megalos intended, here’s the thing: Stella is part of her now. We have that ghost in common.