Eliksni Quarter, Botza District, Last City

The Guardian listens to a conversation on the radio near The Ether Tank in the Eliksni Quarter.

Eido: I did not have to hear it from her. That was your choice.

Mithrax: That was not a story Eramis had any right to tell.

Eido: Did you believe that I would never find out? That no one would remember? I'm charged with preserving the history of our people!

Mithrax: Some history does not need to be preserved.

Eido: Like the Whirlwind? So much was lost; so much we will never recover, no matter how much we search… no matter how much we remember. Is that what you wish to happen to us now?

Mithrax: You do not understand.

Eido: I want to understand! You will not let me!

Mithrax: You do not know what I know! You did not see what I saw! When I pulled you from the wreckage of a Ketch, I knew that you deserved more than the world that orphaned you. I want you to look forward! Not to what the Whirlwind made us. You do not need to carry this history.

Eido: It is a part of me, whether I witnessed it or not. I don't want to look away, and I don't want to forget.

Mithrax: You do not know what you ask.

Eido: Perhaps not. But nothing good comes from refusing to face the truth.