Ah...? ( they look up, a little surprised at the anger, but as they listen... their body seems to relax again and they close their eyes. filling the room with silence for a few uncomfortable moments as they close their eyes, and finally offer a simple— )
You're right.
( there was still so many nuances about the humans rutile didn't yet understand. animals ate animals, humans ate animals, animals sometimes ate humans... and yet— here's a not-quite human or animal with a lesson on where the lines should be drawn.
one foot shifted its weight to the other, and in the candlelight rutile's hair glimmered against the walls. )
I hadn't considered a lot of things, I suppose. ( the emotions they might feel... guilt, perhaps? shame? rutile didn't know of course, but imagining feeling guilty for wanting to survive... that certainly reminded them of another. )
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You're right.
( there was still so many nuances about the humans rutile didn't yet understand. animals ate animals, humans ate animals, animals sometimes ate humans... and yet— here's a not-quite human or animal with a lesson on where the lines should be drawn.
one foot shifted its weight to the other, and in the candlelight rutile's hair glimmered against the walls. )
I hadn't considered a lot of things, I suppose. ( the emotions they might feel... guilt, perhaps? shame? rutile didn't know of course, but imagining feeling guilty for wanting to survive... that certainly reminded them of another. )
I apologize, I didn't mean to offend you.