There's a stretch of silence before finally Detlef talks again, in a voice that's barely above a whisper: "You don't... have it, then. At all."

Heard things. Not felt it. It lines up with Colin's suspicions and leaves Detlef feeling a little more in doubt about everything. If what he's been told his whole life is wrong, what does that mean? Is it a lie? Is it confusion? Does it mean that the Shepherds all have it and this assume everyone else does which makes them just the same as the people they burn?

And if not everyone is born with it, then why is it such a bad thing instead of seen as a gift from the gods?