[ It is and it isn't, but she doesn't pick up on the nuance. ]

He became a Sin Eater. The first Sin Eater, trapped in his own body and frustratingly aware for a hundred years. Unable to talk, to even really move. ...It's enough to drive anybody mad. And he did go mad. But he found me again one day, reborn... and wholly unaware, at the time, of who I was.