She confirms his every suspicion about humans. Stupid and cruel, especially in a herd. Not that it occurs to him that hunting them down and delivering an agonising death might be cruel. It's simply the law of the cosmos.

When asked about his home, Zack frowns. “I'd bet fire and brimstone's realistic to the demons who live there.” He's heard of such places. Abe is full of stories.

“Ours isn’t like that. It’s beautiful, 'specially at night. All desert, wasteland, and industrial decay. We swallow up the worlds we destroy. You can see massive old cities and buildings, lying there half-covered by the sands. It's haunting. I love it.”