Confusing Tyche

Tyche and the Ants was perhaps one of the strangest stories I have read in this class. The first sentence establishes the obscure setting of the story and it just gets weirder after that. The story begins with "The ants arrived on the Moon on the same day Tyche went through the Secret Door to give a ruby to the Magician". Tyche even grows the ruby she gives to the musician and also grows her extremely advanced space suit. At the end of the story, the Moon People end up inside of Tyche. Did you also feel that this story had strange yet brillant elements? Also, Tyche is torn between many lies in this story. Her parents tell her to listen to "the Brain" but the ants tell her that her parents are alive. Do you think the decisions Tyche make are harder due to her inconsistent knowledge? How would you respond to a world when you are not 100% certain of "facts"?