At least Kain understands that reaction to mention of the shards. He was disturbed when he first arrived and the painful glow had been there in his hand… and he hasn’t grown to like the notion of having it, even now. Still, he gets that they probably hold some clue to all of this, a connection to what’s brought them all here in the first place. It doesn’t mean he likes it either, though.

“Agreed. We can do as much as we can at the moment, but in the long term… in the long term, we’re going to need to put an end to it on a much greater level. It goes far beyond what an individual is capable of.” At home, the only way to solve their problems was going to the moon, fighting Zemus, the one behind everything that had happened. They could have battled all of his monsters endlessly, but in the end they had to face down the one truly responsible for everything.