Ramza shook his head. "I did not see their attempts. Only their shadows, in the garden. I am sorry." He knew Kaji cared for Ib. Seeing her like that, even separated by thousands of years, would have been painful.

He tried to think of how best to voice his thoughts. "We have an an ally, or at least an envoy, in the girl. Maybe she could help us understand what the Calamity needs to survive. What precisely it feeds on. Because...it is fighting to survive just as we are, and so it will fight just as fiercely as we do. But if there is a way it can sustain itself without destroying everything, perhaps it can change its course."