"A violent overreaction won't help anyone. For all their invasiveness, and for all they haven't given satisfactory explanations yet, I didn't get any real impression of distrust from those who found us. This may be their way of helping. But they could just as easily decide helping us isn't worth the trouble."

Hifumi sighs. "This would be far easier to figure out if we just had more pieces of the puzzle. Why we're here, whether anyone is liable to notice our absence..."