While Runark found himself enjoying the birth of a romantic relationship with the girl he had a crush on his entire life, her father entered an isolated chamber far away.
An isolated chamber containing the crystallized form of Divine Mother o-o-o-o. Rui stared at her frozen form deeply. Everything that had happened recently had begun with this Divine Mother. His daughter choosing to accept that mission with Runark to Planet Amadeus, their success against the native arakai on the outpost infected world, and later the virus informing this very Divine Mother that his daughter was the key.
All of it began on that fateful day.
He wasn't being sentimental about it, of course. He merely reflected on the ripples of causality and the consequences they could have on civilization. How one person's decisions could reshape a civilization's fate.
