[Well... She does have a point. But there's a difference between living and existing, surely? You have to do the latter to be able to try the former... or something like that.

As long as you're alive, it's fine. His motto.

Meanwhile, this is getting to a very difficult topic.]

They may have. No - they definitely did, several times.

[It's no surprise that Magda considers them the Natha's lapdogs; Atsushi considers himself loyal to them, indeed. But he knows very well that they've been... less than completely open about a great many things.]

At the same time, several people have gone back to worlds that the Natha claimed had been destroyed by the Storm, so. To be honest, I have a few questions for them, too.