Why wouldn't I want to help you? What does me being human have to do with anything?

[...his mind flashes again to Aero--to Donovan, remembering something he had told Jeb while teaching the artist more about Aviophiel and the ancient elementals. Those elementals, which included Donovan himself, had faced a problem with humans, hadn't they? ...is it like that?]

I don't have anything gain from hurting you, and I don't want to. What I am shouldn't mean anything. I don't lie about wanting to help people.