"Yes," Skydive says, glancing at Perceptor. "Humans can be needlessly violent, cruel, and sadistic, but their fighting ends." Which meant theirs would, too. There was no two ways about it, really. If humans could do it...

"What do you think of the war?"

The quiet question almost literally came out of nowhere, an uncharacteristic slip that had Skydive blinking almost immediately after he asked it. Then he winced. There were better ways to go about asking a question like that, but he didn't take it back. He'd been wanting to ask someone that for awhile.