But Searcher's next words made her frown. In the language of the Celestials, Searcher said, "When all the intelligent lives you know have died, will you still stop The Eliminator as you do today? You admire those two intelligent beings, but you have not realized that you possess the same noble qualities."
"I firmly believe that you will protect them—the humans you speak of—for a very long time. Even if every human on this planet died of old age, you would continue protecting them. But how long can you persist? A hundred years? Two hundred?"
"When you realize that this world has changed without your noticing, and you can no longer see even a trace of the past you once knew, will you still protect it?"
Searcher's questions were sharp and deeply philosophical.
Daisy barely needed to think to know he was right. Her patience would eventually run out.
Ancient One's original Ideal had been so great, but when this world grew increasingly unfamiliar and became completely different from the one she remembered, she chose to walk another path.
Had Ancient One changed? You could say she had, or you could say she had not. The world had changed, and in the end, she had been forced to change with it.
Daisy lowered her head and chuckled. "We'll worry about the future later. Are you ready to visit our library?"
After all, she had trained Child of Stars before. She knew these Celestials especially loved reading—art, culture, history, all of it.
Play to his preferences. The library would be their first stop!
Searcher happily agreed. Daisy and he flew toward the New York Public Library, while Spider-Man swung after them on webbing and Captain America followed on his motorcycle.
Central Park was not far from the New York Public Library,