"Unwilling to give up... perhaps that's true, who knows."
The Memory Manager slowly stirred the tea and jam, his tone unchanged.
"But it's precisely because of the unwillingness to let go that led to such an outcome, isn't it?"
There's no such thing as love without reason, nor hatred without cause.
Gaia and Alaya Consciousness;
Nature and sapient beings;
Creation and the created;
Regardless of how the relationship evolved later, or how it ended in lamentable circumstances, the initial relationship between them genuinely stemmed from 'love and goodwill'.
To let the natural system flourish, to dispel loneliness—in that way, the planet created sapient beings.
To propagate and make their species thrive—thus, sapient beings worshipped nature.
