I'm beginning to think these folks don't deserve to survive. Not because I'd side with queerats, but because the humans are so miserable already. They murder their own children out of fear, but then when something bad comes from the outside, they are totally unable to defend themselves and die like sheep. Such evolutionary failures have no business ruling any part of the world anymore.

You'd think out of all those people you could find a few who have lost their family and everything and thus wouldn't mind sacrificing themselves to destroy the fiend. Maybe that's what Tomiko had in mind, who knows. The fiend should be pretty tired already, having been so busy and all the time surrounded by some cantus mist. It must have run out of glycogen a long time ago and is trudging on fat alone already.