[ Ephemera considers that silently, listening to the batter cook. He gives it another few seconds, then flips the first pancake. ]

I’d see that a lot with the Insurrection. With their kids. We all grew up in the war, but it was -

Different, for them. They’d been doing it for generations.

[ He shakes his head. ]

There were bombings when I was a kid. And drills, once they knew what the Covenant could do. Telling us to go to shelters like that was going to make a difference. But we never starved on Eremus. People never killed each other over water.

[ No. That came later, when he was a soldier. ]