Abel nodded almost wistfully, collecting his paper and stacking it neatly. "I've imagined going to some new planet... or having aliens visit someday---I mean, I'm not sure why they'd want to waste their time here since we'd be real boring to something that's mastered space travel or something. But like... I've written some ideas. Like, stories, but they all turn kind of bad because the alien races are either killed off or they start a war with us... I dunno, I guess I don't have much faith in people not to completely mow over new races if they come to the planet." He shook his head in annoyance. He watched a lot of movies, mostly with his father because his mother hated alien movies. But he didn't have much faith in his own race not to destroy a new one should it show even a minute amount of interest in their primitive lives. But if he were honest, he wouldn't have expected Cain to be interested in astronomy.