"Not directly, no. I do feel as though in practice the interplay of cause and effect is much more complex and subtle than we might be given to assume, or are capable of consciously following." He gives a helpless shrug. That's not particularly helpful either, is it?

"Anyway, I'm sure it's not important right now. Or maybe it's so terribly and fundamentally important that it's too big for us to see the whole of it anyway, so it's gone right back around to being not important again." A sign writ in letters so large only a god could read them. Either way irrelevant to creatures as small as they are, which is a relief, really. Dirk is more than willing to be cheerful about that, and is very much of the opinion that Aloy should be too. He aims a brilliant smile her way to communicate this.