How large was the world on the other side of the gates? Could it really hold every living being from another world?
Could the inhabitants of fifteen Black Flag worlds properly distribute themselves among the safe worlds? Would one world end up bearing more life than it could sustain?
Would the inhabitants of safe worlds be willing to accept refugees from other races?
What did they eat? And after we arrived, what would we eat?
Would our arrival cause panic, seizing their living space and resources?
The condition for the game to end was tied to the number of living beings. What did that truly mean?
My mother quietly raised question after question.
At last, she asked me, "You were just thinking about going to other worlds to play, weren't you? Then let me ask you this instead. If all the beings from another world came to ours, what would your first reaction be?"
I did not answer.
