In this short scene, we learn that Ulysses and Desdemona are still playing the same game. The two of them have discovered that the other is surrounded by tentacles, and they both know that they will be killed if they continue to pursue each other. They decide that the people of the future are innocent and will not be destroyed by the destruction of the paradise they have prepared for them. They are not even their family, only "ihm" and "family" . They feel that their paradise will be destroyed if they do not abandon it. They realize that they have made a bad choice, and that it is their own choice to do so.