"He was," Jack confirms. "And no, we don't know what they found out, but I still don't know how much I want to trust what bits and pieces we saw without context. But," Jack cuts himself off, and stares into the distance for a second.

"Try to explain to anyone else why it might be a good thing, or even a necessary thing? We can't know for sure. The idea that nothing we do matters, that the crystal stat is just what is?" He shakes his head. "That's the kind of despair that I'm pretty sure has taken over Kalki. And had taken over Garland, in the past."

Gwen. That's what you were trying to show me, wasn't it?