[To Kamala's credit, she listens. She takes every word into her heart and carefully reviews it in her mind. She's a starry-eyed girl who likes to see the best in things. The world she occupies is a more colorful and beautiful one than most see in reality. Her mother never let her escape completely into her fantasy world. When Matthias presents her with a hard reality she doesn't appear to be surprised. She looks deeply concerned and unusually focused. She accepts it as a real possibility.

Her arms cross over her chest. Kamala worries her lip as she wonders what their misstep could be. Better to ask the source, she realizes quickly.]

Okay so tell me how we've been cruel. From our perspective, people are being attacked. We're trying to keep them alive even though sometimes they can be kind of awful. Getting access to a way home is just a bonus. We would have protected them for free or at least most of us would.

[There's no defensiveness or denial. Kamala sincerely wants to know his answer.] Where did we go wrong?