"It's a cycle, Doctor." Duster speaks up from the back of the room, taking several steps closer to the man in the jacket. "Cutting off the connection between our worlds would help, but Crystallis is dying and stealing us in order to save itself. Doing that will only speed it up."

He bites his lip, recalling the truth of his own world. How humanity destroyed all but one corner, how quickly the Nowhere Islands could be wiped out thanks to the whims of an eternal child. Severing the life source of the planet would make them no better than Porky.

"We have to find another way for that world to survive. Find another energy source...I don't know how, but there has to be a way. I can't abandon everyone who lives there and let them die."