- This riddle is more difficult... than the one the vice-captain gave us...
- You figured me out. - Zenus defeated spread his hands to the side. - That's what I don't like about them. But nothing, maybe in a thousand or two years they will still catch up to our current level of civilization.
Having eaten the cake, Girra put his hand on his friend's shoulder.
- We've been ruined again, uh, that is, separated, but I believe in you. Come back alive, and you guys with Sisyandra too. Well, I'm off to the "Thunder," when else will I have the opportunity to walk the deck of my favorite ship?
He felt some anxiety for the kid, despite all his innate optimism, but he didn't realize it himself.
Having thrown the last piece of his dish down the hatch, he glances at his "classmates" (hoping to see Zumi erotically swallowing tentacles) and concludes:
- That's our plan. Final questions, clarifications, wishes?