I never said that you needed to absolve yourself for existing, or even that you need my understanding or absolution in that matter. It just seems that you don't understand yourself here any more so than we understand you. You might even understand yourself less than we can understand you, really.

[She drops her hands back down.]

For example... why did you even come here just to tell us that what we're doing is pointless? You didn't stop us from coming in, and you don't seem interested in stopping us from destroying this tree--which, is a shame really because it's a fascinating subject for study, but I can still understand that it's the better decision to be done here to end the suffering of the people within it.

[thank god emma's priorities are apparently still intact as far as that goes, it seems]

It just makes you being here at all seem even more pointless than whatever we're doing... unless it was an attempt to try to understand our way of seeing it better, or checking to make sure we weren't secretly doing something to destroy you? But if you don't care why we're doing it or even want to understand us, and since I thought you've already been watching us on our journey enough that you'd know if we were planning something destructive that hurts you, then... again, why are you even here then?