"We're more resilient than you give us credit for. Of course, when you give an entire species a common enemy to fight against it makes them stronger as a whole." His eyes narrowed ever so slightly when she admitted that at least in her world, these so-called Gems had apparently invaded earth.

"Our worlds must be wildly different because that never happened in my universe's history." He wondered why she would admit so casually to a man who'd just professed having his life shaped by a generation's long alien invasion that she too was some kind of aggressive invader and a threat to mankind. So now he was doing a reassessment and moving her from the vaguely annoying category to potential threats in his mind.