"It's a question whether we're a help or liability. Maybe the reason they can't defeat him is they're trying to protect us. Or maybe we're the problem." He shrugs.

All the more reason to keep one's optics open.

There's no one here, just the eerie silence of a place long-abandoned. He can tell by the grit under his footplates that no one had stepped here in ages. It was the same dust he'd stepped in on his return to Theophany.

"Be helpful if we had some lights. This looks like mechs lived here."