“Your technologies have been hammering away at Earth’s cytoskeleton. There are all kinds of holes in it now. And those will become… holes in you. Because that’s the relationship. Her buffers? Were your buffers. Until you obliterated them. Now, the situation is reversed.

You’ve become the threat. Now the buffers are there to ensure that, primarily, the threat you’ve become is directed back at you.”

— infraheard