"Welp. We know that they got some knowledge of temporal stability and maybe manipulatin' time itself. We learnt that at the last mission. We know they can decide people seen too much. We saw that, too."

He's frowning extra hard now, thinking of people like Nell who worked out how to keep her land. Or people like Idia or Selenay who left discrete messages after knowing the troubles of their loved ones.

"I hope they don't. I hope they let us have this... But if they've been hidin' somethin' as big as whole worlds bein' lost to somethin' then I don't count on a lotta benevolence outa people." He could stand to be pleasantly surprised every once in a while.