Rui's conviction was heavy, and Julian certainly understood where he came from. Based on everything he had been told, the threats that Gaian civilization faced were not small. Rui had also chosen to divulge to him the matter of the alien virus infecting the very universe itself.
It was such an extraordinary and hopeless problem that Julian wasn't sure how to even begin to conceive of a solution to such a problem.
"It won't be easy," Rui remarked, reading his mind. "But there should exist a solution if we search hard enough. That problem, however, is not as acute as the problem of the incoming threats that come to us because we, or I, rather, have drawn their attention. We must grow stronger before they arrive. Eventually, we will grow strong enough to consider higher-order matters."
