Unfortunate? Maybe. But that was just how things had been. The Nirvana that they'd been promised had turned out to be a broken world corrupted by God's malignant data, not the paradise they'd all envisioned. "That's one way of putting it, I suppose," Argilla replied with a small smile.

She wasn't certain why he would be saddened by that. He'd only just met her, not long enough to create any kind of relationship which would engender concern for her wellbeing, but maybe adversity made things like that easier. It had with Roland. This was confusing! "Everyone deserves that," she replied. "It sounds like paradise."