Well, yeah! How are they gonna know what they're doing wrong if you don't tell them? [ the 'duh' goes unsaid, but heavily implied. come on, jacqli. surely that had to have been a given.

hey! he isn't naïvely optimistic! just occasionally naïve. and swords don't have prerequisites, don't be silly. that's just absurd.

but now that she's gotten him thinking all deep-like, he can't help but to wonder how his own planet feels about having its life force filtered right out of it. that can't be a good feeling – he knows that – but it's still kind of difficult to think of gaia as any form of sentient.

he isn't a cetra. he doesn't think like that. doot doot. ] You've got a point. Man … [ he shakes his head. ] We really do many too many problems for ourselves, don't we?