/saves pic
(but nobody else is allowed to know)
I think it's probable that what we saw in the ep7 tea party was the truth. When Bern denies it in ep8, it's part of her effort to manipulate Ange into unlocking the book for her. Bern lying in ep8 is more plausible than Bern being about to admit to Ange in ep7 that she's not seeing the full truth.
Also what I said earlier about Ange flipping out when she does open the book.
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another place and time, without a great divide, and we could be flying deadly high