Marozi: Once upon a time, I was so very certain about everything, you were to be kept away from Ves, he wasn’t to be distracted by this evil working designed to ruin his life…you. And then Ves went and reversed your path, and all of the sudden you’re on my team. We are the two aliens here, and you play by my rules now.

Kore: Shane is dangerous, and I can’t ensure people’s safety around him by myself! I need your power. I’m asking you for a genuine miracle! Look, I’m not an angel ok? But I’ve been on your team for years. You saved me in the desert. Brought grandfather to me, helped Shane get to me, God knows how. Kept me alive when I was sent into the eremos. Rafe, come back!

Marozi: The Resistance is dozens of lives, given their influence on the island, thousands. It’s not worth bringing Xander’s wrath down upon these people, destroying them. Shane is in the best possible hands here, even though you may not want to acknowledge that. Welcome to your new life, we watch and wait and you have to face Ves forever, so you might as well figure it out now. When Qurehsi can go back to the mainland and his dear Mrs. Qureshi and all their little ones…when Esme can finally accept a staff position at her beloved alma mater…when this world has ceased to swirl around this galactic center that is the telepath and his influence, then. There are myriads of my brothers sunken down the path of impatience. I must not take initiative that’s not mine.

Kore: I need guidance! What would I do without you? You told me about Ves in the first place. I would have had no idea who he was, if you hadn’t shown me!

Marozi: You’ve got to solve your own problems, Kore.

Kore: You were given to me to help. That’s just a fact. Do your damn job.

Marozi: I should never have spoken to you on that first day by the docks. You didn’t recognize me. I could have stayed silent.

Kore: It was meant to be, Rafe.

Marozi: Without people, no matter how flawed, this is just a cold rock getting colder in decay, heading towards an interminable ice age. I don’t want to watch through one again. If we have to wait for Ves to decide Shane’s ultimate fate, we will. If I have to break a promise to Grant, I will.

Kore: Shane is a danger to everyone on this island! Together we could ensure their safety!

Marozi: Terrible fates are fates as well. Merry Christmas.