>"Where'd you learn that word?" >"I found a stack of old books hidden behind some pipes in the hydroponics module." >"What do you think?" >"I don't believe in monsters. You and mom made them up so I'll stay in bed all night." >"Haha! Very good, but I'm afraid these particular monsters are all too real." >"Are? They're still around?" >"Mhm. That's why we can never return to the surface. And why we came to live undersea to begin with." >"Are we really safe?" >"Don't you worry. We left for other countries, they followed on foot. We left for floating seasteads, they followed by boat. But there is no nigger who can build a submarine. Nor can they swim. Water terrifies them." >"Will the surface ever be safe for us again?" >"Long ago, we thought they would simply starve to death without us supporting them. Instead they regressed to a stable paleolithic lifestyle and simply spread until they covered every landmass and what few seasteads have not yet sunk. But, our brightest minds are working on a virus."