[ Louis nods. He hadn't heard of anything supernatural in the years following the Great Collapse. Maybe Blood Gifts are partly magical in nature, but they're very different from Soul Devices. ]

That's good. [ Better that another parallel world be spared the horrors of those beasts. ] We don't know what provoked the appearance of those lifeforms, or the appearance of the thorns, but we're surviving. One day, we will find the answer.

[ It's for furthering this cause that he agreed to come here. At least his conscience is clear on that part. ]