[she looks even more distressed]

I--I hadn't even thought about that. The idea that the Null had already done something that will make it impossible to coexist. That's awful. I can't--why are beings so cruel to one another?

[the Daxamites, the Null, the aliens sometimes. cruelty for cruelty's sake is completely foreign to her nature]

The Null . . . they're going to come back, aren't they? Everyone says so.