The Rattler camp. Ellie finding Abby and Lev imprisoned, surviving in the worst conditions the game presents. The giving away has been voluntary throughout — this is what the epigram insists. She was not robbed of herself. She surrendered pieces of herself in exchange for forward motion, for the continuation of the purpose, for the promise that the next step would be the one that resolved it.

By this point the transaction has been fully completed. What she has given away cannot be accounted for by pointing to a single moment. It was the incremental negotiation of every session, the small payments that accumulate into a total that cannot be recovered.