Rin rubbed the back of her head, harder than she really meant to with her own anxiety working up with his.

"I don't know how-- ... why... you survived. Why any of us did. We just... did."

Not a satisfactory answer, she knows, but that's all she has.

"... they were fightin' a war. Over... what, I'unno. They've never been very clear about that. Caels didn't like Ura and Ura didn't like Caels. But it was the Caels that did it... buildin' this thing they were gonna use on the Ura. It didn't work that way, though. It took out everyone, everything. Not just here, but in a lotta other worlds, too..."