Everyone agreed that made sense.
So they quickly pushed aside thoughts of how to die as peacefully as falling asleep and began to think about how to survive.
Lan Yan, who had been silent all this time, asked, "Does this ship have escape pods?"
"Yes!"
"But we're already off course. We don't even know what corner of space we're in. Ejecting in an escape pod might not be a path to survival, but a path to death."
Setting aside what might be lurking on nearby routes, they had no idea how to find their way back to their original course in space.
And then there was the giant tree itself—it wasn't the kind of being that would let them leave so easily.
After all, it had so many roots that it could bind objects and drag them back even from a great distance.
Escaping it wouldn't be so simple.
If they hadn't truly felt like they were out of options, why would they be contemplating how to die a little more peacefully?
