"Aye. That's the thing been troubling me. A normal force of people usually has a leader, but here we're dealing with multiple heads of the same beast. Multiple faces, each with their own agenda. And should we cut down one it may well make another stronger. Clearly even the ones on our 'side' aren't precisely allies."

"It may well be there's nothing that can be done for this world, or ourselves. But if we act foolishly we may unleash this all on our homeworlds. I don't expect we'll like the answer but what we need to find out how we're all connected to the Calamity ourselves. That's the one question that's remained in the air." For all they knew, Kalki may have thought she was doing good by breaking their connection to it when she was actually making things worse.

"I pity Kalki. I don't think she had control over what she was doing. It's clear now she wanted to help us, but I think the Calamity was affecting her."