If they intended to exploit us, they wouldn't offer payment, and we wouldn't have a choice of where to go. Suspicion is natural and healthy, but so far it's balanced by the evidence against it. We could even walk away fully, go anywhere else in the world.

Perhaps, Father, what ties us to the apocalypse is not ourselves, but the method of our arrival. Something peculiar that we all share - but it be
nefits us to assist, does it not?