“We’re going to need a bigger boat.” It was a human joke. The team understood the reference but didn’t get the joke. That was a different thing. The humans made lots of jokes: maybe masking the existential fear, maybe a way of dealing with the boredom. Managing the team was dull. “Wind ’em up and let ’em go.” “I counted them all out. I counted them all back”. They had no idea what the team did out there, hunting. They just waited for confirmation on the “kills”. They couldn’t even confirm the deactivations. They just had to trust the team.