Matilda tried to go back to that day. It was honestly something she tried not to think too deeply about, considering it plagued her dreams well enough.

"There's a forest not that far from the city. If you travel east you'll come to it. That's were I met her. I had noticed smoke rising above the treetops and thought it was some other campers but the closer I got the less it seemed like that. There was a lot of it. Once I got closer it looked like it was coming from a spaceship. She was doing something to it--trying to fix it, I think."

Well read as she was space ships were definitely not something she had much, if any knowledge on. It seemed a logical conclusion.

"That was when she noticed me. She acted nice at first," at this Matilda sounded particularly morose, "then she started chasing me and said she planned on making humans turn on each other. That's when I hit her, and then flew away." Talking about it makes Matilda wonder if she should have stuck around. She might have been able to finish off Airachnid when she was done but something about that makes her feel queasy. Even if she was able to, Matilda wasn't certain she could bring herself to actually end someone's life.

Yet wasn't that something Airachnid probably deserved? What if someone else had wandered into that forest and now was dead because Matilda hadn't done something? The possibility is not one she considered before and it makes her go pale.