"It was not always picture perfect," Sudo comments. "We are human. Flawed. Prone to make decisions based on emotion and not fact or empathy. It has taken a great amount of work to mend our relationships."

There's a lot to dive deeper into here -- maybe just even the specifics of who got hurt and why -- but instead, Sudo commits to the turn and approaches Cinnabar in slow, even strides. They don't approach any more than they can safely -- they give the blobs of mercury a healthy berth. They don't know that they're dangerous, but they suspect it.

"What happened?"