"Yeah," Reno sighed. "It's messy. Gaia is full of messy shit. Zack's one of them dominoes somewhere along the way. Things are already in motion, there ain't no way to keep it from gettin' bad. But it's all a measure of how bad it gets, from here."

Which was horribly pessimistic. Reno was well aware of that. But he hadn't survived the end of the world several times over by being a sunshine-spewing optimist, either.