Here's the passage with the apostrophes and double apostrophes changed to curly ones:

“Back then, only Frona and I knew about this,” Yefrenes said. “Our Daoisms are different. I created Mordecai Preston, while she created Dillon Zacharias.

“But they don’t belong to the orthodox. They happened to balance Waitara, so we kept them.”

Yefrenes took a deep breath. “It’s unexpected that Waitara locked them here.”

After hearing Yefrenes’ explanation, Amos frowned. “Since Dillon is here, James and Xa