"I've always thought the universe doesn't particularly want to kill anyone. That would imply it cared about any of us." Really, they were all just tiny flecks of light and life in a wider plane of existence. If you thought the universe was out to get you, that was classic paranoid thinking in his professional opinion.

"Don't worry, I don't bite." Julian logs his scans--he's done plenty of them today, it doesn't take long--and then preps a hypospray with the antibiotic and vaccine they've been giving everyone that day.