As understandable as it was, the news couldn't help but sound terrible.
The sunlight from ten years ago had devastated Nitis, crippling the Niqols' development and setting their society back by more than a few decades.
After all, the Niqols had to undo the harm that accepting the human ways had done, which required more than learning from scratch. The fact that they had managed to improve the old ways in such a short period was a miracle by itself.
Still, some things couldn't be controlled. The birthrate and maturity of the new generations weren't something the Elders could affect. The Niqols were probably still recovering from that decade-old tragedy.
The war against the Scarlet Eyes promised to be bloody, and the Niqols couldn't let it affect their recovery. They risked disappearing as a species if they suffered too many losses, too, which couldn't be allowed.
