[once, there had been many children here and she knew them all. then slowly but surely, they all went away, back to their own worlds. she can't even count that as a mercy since she knows that most of them weren't going back to the best of circumstances]

Indeed. The Null exhausted all hopes of goodwill long ago. They simply must be destroyed.

[and a bitter laugh] Yes. Really now, for creatures calling themselves gods, you'd think they'd be a bit more adept at self-defense. Instead, they rely on us "mere mortals" to do their dirty work for them.