[ There's a ripple of complex emotion as Matt considers Yima's (potential) perspective. He's so angry at her for what he perceives she's done to Amos, using love and devotion as levers to turn him into an assassin. He's so angry about Springstar. But he also can't help identifying with her. The sense of unconditional love, of rootedness in the cosmos--those things carry weight for him. He feels them in his bones. ]

I can't presume to know exactly why Yima's done what she's done, [ is what he settles on. ] And I don't know what might happen if we produced some kind of cooperative tie, but I do think a potential obstacle there would be that if nothing happened--no power was unlocked, or, I don't know, the Oracles didn't spit out an instruction manual for restoring all the lost worlds--people would go back to fighting for a majority.