When the creature offered to answer one of her questions, a whole host of them arose for Ida: “What is happening?” “Why does the chthonic forest want to destroy humanity?” “Why am I here?” “When will you let me go home?”
Ida had to think hard before she said:
“Why are you, Hurata-Rekreta, so obsessed with the idea of destroying the population of this planet instead of learning to coexist in relative peace, without killing and devouring everyone?”

