[Okay, so maybe Nate's right and he shouldn't be telling all this to someone so young. But she had asked, and he's gonna be honest. Though she does look upset enough that he almost wants to hug her.]

It seems like that's just the natural order of things. Anything that's strong dominates the weak and can do what it wishes.

Though it would be nice if what it wanted was something other than making things suffer. But hasn't happened yet.

[And being the least hopeful person ever he's pretty sure it never will.]

Yeah. They will. We don't know when or how, but they're not going to go away until we either beat them back, or they get what they want. Which seems to be killing everyone.