A quirk of a smile at the question, but Ellis bypasses it instead to say, "I'd like to hear what it was you envisioned, if you wouldn't mind."

Would it even be comprehensible to him? Sometimes, Tony and Wysteria try to explain bits and pieces of their lives, or they mention something in passing, and it strikes Ellis as if they lapsed into a new language entirely. It may well be the same for Silas, but Ellis asks anyway. Perhaps the broad strokes of it will be understandable, perhaps not. He still wants to know.