"Do you think what Lanmar said earlier is true?" Luke finally asked, his voice low as he watched John work.
John didn't look up immediately. He was deep into the code of a cannon. After the lunch break, he returned to the cannons with a singular focus. The more he hacked and edited the code lines, the more natural it felt.
"What if it is true?" John asked back, his tone surprisingly detached. To him, since he came here, he had overstepped the realm of being surprised by anything easily.
With his friends by his side and the strong base he was building, he felt a level of security that bordered on overconfidence. He didn't see a reason to worry about a broken cycle when they could easily crush any danger thrown at them.
