The green-eyed spirits are more inhuman than most things he's used to - more alien, in fact, than animals. At least he understands the basic motivations of a dog, or a horse. But he respects that stubborn desire for peace and communication. Of the many hard lessons learned in his early childhood, the strongest was how unnecessary violence and cruelty can be - how it's a reaction out of fear that could be avoided simply by trying to understand.
Trouble is that after a year here, he's just not sure applying those very human lessons to green-eyes is even fair to them. If they think in ways that are so far removed from anything he knows, why expect them to understand what humans and those like them want? Perhaps the world eater had been trying to tell him something, in that moment when it reached into his mind. Maybe they should be trying to think like green-eyes.
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The green-eyed spirits are more inhuman than most things he's used to - more alien, in fact, than animals. At least he understands the basic motivations of a dog, or a horse. But he respects that stubborn desire for peace and communication. Of the many hard lessons learned in his early childhood, the strongest was how unnecessary violence and cruelty can be - how it's a reaction out of fear that could be avoided simply by trying to understand.
Trouble is that after a year here, he's just not sure applying those very human lessons to green-eyes is even fair to them. If they think in ways that are so far removed from anything he knows, why expect them to understand what humans and those like them want? Perhaps the world eater had been trying to tell him something, in that moment when it reached into his mind. Maybe they should be trying to think like green-eyes.