The study fell silent for a few seconds as Ophelia seemed to be organizing her thoughts, while Gawain processed the information she had provided. After a moment, he spoke, breaking the silence: "Did you initiate the defied plan just because of those two sentences?"
Without waiting for Ophelia's reply, he added: "I've thought of a possibility—could it be that the knowledge and essence of the gods are far beyond human perception and the processing ability of the human brain, so any act of approaching the gods would lead to madness, regardless of whether the gods themselves truly harbor malice? Could what those deceased explorers and half-crazed returnees saw have been merely knowledge that drives humans mad, rather than the gods themselves?"
