“The situation on, on earth is complicated.” “You mean politics?” Dakkar spat the word, with immeasurable contempt. - Adam Roberts

It could be any one of a dozen things. Experience has taught me that we much more often see connection where there is only random copresence. Pattern-seeking consciousness, you know. Great plains ape, you know.

Do you know what this is?
"The floor, Miss?"
"Dust! I read about it—tiny particles of matter.

His last hours alive. But he didn’t know!
None of us will know, of course. The weird grammar of death. You die, he or she dies, they die, but there is no genuine form for “I”. Not really. All know that, none know when.