"What were you considering before you came over here?" Gen asked her. "Were you thinking about how to work together with the others here, even those you didn't know? Were you thinking about what you believed in, how you felt when you accomplished these missions the train gives us - if it satisfied any of your own personal ethics?"

"Especially in a situation like this," Gen told her with a small smile, "we're forced to think minute-by-minute. How to survive. We're trapped, we're stuck, we just need to find a way to get by. We lose sight of the big picture, what we need to do beyond mere survival."

"So," Gen concluded, "it does what any other story or piece of art often tries to do. It inspires."