[A flat look. Yeah, really. He's onto you, you little shit. But this is different and he's finding he's actually enjoying hearing about all of this. It's different. It's like listening to stories about people who weren't doomed from the start. It's also all the more reason he's interested in keeping Adam alive whether Adam knows it or not. Luke's motivations have shifted slightly just from the last hour or so.]

There's always at least one person who wants to destroy the world. [He sounds vaguely bitter that the other dreamer was killed and yet everyone else lived, but that's his own issue. And then, ever so casually:] You guys killed him? Or something else?

[…and suddenly it all makes sense.] The tree thing. [A sage nod.] So it was like…you'd speak to the trees and do a reading, and the reading was how you interpreted what they were saying. Something like that? [And then before he can even stop talking:] Wonder if there's a way we could communicate with the ship itself with something like that. [There's a wary little grin.] At least when you get back, your trees will talk to you.