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Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the little things, but it's not like your regular duties are all that demanding anyway. Going out to the wreck, spending time talking to humans, it's a small price to pay over the course of eternity. Why should you worry about burning time, when you have so much of it?

You push along the deep seafloor at a leisurely pace as you lead Tamru and Flynn back toward the City of Glass. Occasionally, you can feel the electrical flickers of small jellyfish and bony fish. Your brightness always brings out the curiosity in the local wildlife, but they're wisely nervous about getting too close. You feel a flicker from the sand ahead, probably a flatfish or a skate. You alter your path a little to give it space.

Flynn pipes up with another question: "There is something else I'm curious about. What makes everyone think of you as the human expert? Do you check in on humanity every now and then? Do you play detective and search through the garbage we've dumped in the ocean?"