[ Cisco is impressed that someone has already set up Ragnar's phone to be accessible for him, beams as he successfully texts Cisco and proves he can get into contact with him whenever. A part of him wonders whether the voice-control is a question of convenience or perhaps a literacy thing? Ragnar doesn't appear to have other visual impairments, so chances are one or the other. ]

Yeah, there's a choice. Some people choose to leave, but it can take them a super long time to find a way to get them back home. And a lotta other people choose to stay. Eddie's staying here. But- he did also die. Back home. I know, because if he hadn't, I wouldn't be here. He sacrificed himself protecting us all.

[ Cisco swallows, gaze dropping suddenly; even though Eddie got a second chance here, it is still horrible, remembering the sound of the gunshot, how pale he'd looked as he was laying on the ground gasping out his last words. ]

So it's like... the two exist, simultaneously. He died there. But he came here, too, and they brought him back from the brink. I can't really explain it. All I know is, he can't leave without probably breaking the world and maybe also dying himself, and- and I'm staying wherever he is.

[ Cisco's reasons for deciding to stay in this place are far more complex than just a choice to stay because Eddie is here, but it had been one of the deciding factors.

The question about him being a Christian is unexpected, though maybe it shouldn't have been. Cisco blinks a few times and says: ]

I was raised one. My parents are, big-time.