Marycat's personality is kind of what dictates who they who they are as people and the fact that they're also question off like it is not coming from Constance even though in the first half of the book especially like pre revelation it is implied that it is Constance that is keeping them separated off from everybody else because she is so either traumatized or scared. part is when the kid says hey get some air bud right as the dog jumps and does a nice dunkYeah it's my favorite part yeah um I could feel a breath of air on my cheek it came from the sky I could see but it smelled of smoke and ruin our house was a castle turreted and open to the sky