"I think we need to start our own cult then, because you don't seem that stupid and I know I'm not. Plus, half the fun is creating an alias."

What he said about the planet has her curious, though. The crazy cultists, aside. "And was this planet a future, fucked Earth or somewhere your humanity managed to travel to?"

Given the rate at which climate change is tilting the balance for the worse, it's not such a foreign concept or all that difficult to accept.