Possible Raine would have been able to find more humor in it given the distance that years would bring, but many things were still very raw.

"Slowly," she said, nodding. "We managed to finally germinate the Great Seed, all that remained of the Tree. It's just a sapling, and it will be vulnerable for some time, but it has good guardians." And she and Genis would look after it, of course, so long as they lived and remembered, even after the rest of their friends had passed into history. "The political climate is about to become very awkward, I suspect, and possibly hostile, but enough of my friends have some sway in that arena that it shouldn't be unsalvageable. It will take time, and patience, but I believe we can avoid the mistakes of the past."

And make all-new ones, most likely. Still, they'd be hard-put to break the world as thoroughly as first the War and then Mithos had.