"That would be what attacked my world before they brought me here, then." He closes his eyes, trying not to remember the destruction. They spent so many thousands of years trying to revive the Great Tree...was it all for nothing?

And opens them again, still regarding her curiously. "...So we've been brought here...what, to make a stand against them? Is there some reason to believe that we'll do better than previous attempts, or is this a last defiance sort of thing? ...Not that I exactly have a problem with the latter, but it would be reassuring to think that there's some measure of strategy at work here."