Cin believed him completely, and there was a small part of her that thought she could choose this moment to ask a different question.
But Cin was loyal, and Cin couldn't play pretend about what her feelings were. As she'd tucked Brody into bed every night she had thought about what Apollo had done to him, about how he had taken a bullet out of him and closed the wound, and about how he must have healed others things inside him along the way to make him whole.
She'd sat across from Barak in his nursing home room and watched him struggle to do the smallest tasks, and on her phone she read Apollo's wikipedia page. It could have felt like cheating earlier, but now it felt like the formulation of a plan.
"Then you're gonna heal Barak," she told him, and she didn't make it a request. She said it firm and strong. Cin wasn't praying to a god to save her; she was commanding a god to do her bidding.
Barak was never going to get better on his own. But Apollo had brought Brody back from the brink of death. Barak wasn't even dying.