"Grandma...!"
"It is the truth, making kids is nothing easy like the stories from the old days," Selphira continued, unfazed and visibly enjoying herself.
"Having children somehow gets harder with every passing generation. Even people who live past a hundred and fifty barely manage to have one or two in their entire lives. Look around you; we are the only creatures in this world that do not hatch from eggs… Half the time, I think the world itself finds us so strange that it flatly refuses to let us reproduce too much."
She slid a sideways glance toward Ren, her eyes glinting with genuine curiosity. "I am starting to believe we really did come here from the stars, just like that message in the ruins and that 'engineer' fellow claimed."
Ren blinked, caught off guard that Selphira would casually bring that up right before a battle.
