Mm, they don’t seem too upset about losing the battle for their future. They’re just playing a simple game of chess with another Shapeshifter! Oh wait, that’s just them again actually. They’re playing chess with themself, it’s so hard to keep track of. Seems they’ve been going back and forth for quite a long time now, hard to make any progress when you know every move your opponent is going to make and vice versa. Leads to quite a boring game.

Regardless, you picked this specific arbitrary moment for a reason, didn’t you?