I know it was justified. I know what she went through. I know her world is cruel, that humans there have treated her and all like her with cruelty. I also know people are capable of many travesties, both against groups of people in general and entire races. [He didn't know from firsthand experience, not like Mithos, Kaori and apparently Aleos had. He hadn't missed the use of 'us'.
But he'd seen it in the fear shown towards humans by the beavers, in the chosen isolation of the elves and dwarves, in the cruelty of certain towns towards non-humans... in the dead and the fires set to beaver lodge. In the building of Hatred Fortress. In the knowledge that any non-human in Stormfist could have been killed. He'd seen it in Kaori's blind eyes, in her nightmares, in Mithos' distrust and violence and vulnerability.] But Luceti is different. Few here come from the same world, and that makes such things nearly impossible to manifest. She had a chance to have a life here without that hanging over her. You still have that, too. You don't have to be alone.
[His voice is slightly tight with held back emotion, a plea for understanding. With Kaori, all he'd wanted was for her happiness. He wished Mithos could see it, wished he could realize it, could grasp that happiness himself. He had thought, with Sayo.... But once someone learned to live one way, how difficult must to be, to accept a different reality?] Clinging onto hatred in response to hatred is a way to survive. But it isn't a way to live.
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But he'd seen it in the fear shown towards humans by the beavers, in the chosen isolation of the elves and dwarves, in the cruelty of certain towns towards non-humans... in the dead and the fires set to beaver lodge. In the building of Hatred Fortress. In the knowledge that any non-human in Stormfist could have been killed. He'd seen it in Kaori's blind eyes, in her nightmares, in Mithos' distrust and violence and vulnerability.] But Luceti is different. Few here come from the same world, and that makes such things nearly impossible to manifest. She had a chance to have a life here without that hanging over her. You still have that, too. You don't have to be alone.
[His voice is slightly tight with held back emotion, a plea for understanding. With Kaori, all he'd wanted was for her happiness. He wished Mithos could see it, wished he could realize it, could grasp that happiness himself. He had thought, with Sayo.... But once someone learned to live one way, how difficult must to be, to accept a different reality?] Clinging onto hatred in response to hatred is a way to survive. But it isn't a way to live.