It was all for the better that he didn't linger too long on the memory. Warm as it was, there was always the edge that came with knowing how the story ended. It was fine.

"Y'know, I haven't been there yet," Kai admitted. They'd started up a good chunk of the path, so it wasn't an exceptionally long trek to the designated part of the peak. "But there's gotta be at least a few, I'd bet. Earth bugs already kinda look like aliens, so I wonder how crazy alien bugs would be."