Rama's response to Ngozi's question required careful consideration before he composed it, understanding that whatever he offered would shape how a genuinely thoughtful fifteen-year-old understood the moral scope of memory itself extending across the boundaries this crisis had revealed.
Thank you for asking this, he wrote, working through his response with the same care he'd once brought to explaining Timeline's awareness to Ngozi years prior. You're right that these losses deserve honoring, the same way every loss Coalition has ever acknowledged deserves it. I don't yet know exactly what that will look like — the civilizations involved have different traditions than ours, different ways of remembering. But I promise you, we're working to make sure nobody's death becomes just a number, regardless of where they came from.
He shared the exchange with Sekar, who recognized immediately what Ngozi's simple question had actually surfaced.
