Thread:Crowsoul50/@comment-33229352-20190824035223/@comment-36159587-20190901060347

"Yes," and Hitan was careful to add, "the ones who were directly involved in killing your family." He shook his head. Should he tell her?

He decided he would. "I don't think you care, but I'm going to say it anyway. I do understand where you're coming from.

"I...well, there's a certain group of hunters intent on my death for the past few years, and then there's another intent on even more..." he trailed off. "Point being, even though I've only lost one life so far to them, and don't really know what it would really be like to be you, because I didn't lose my entire family, culture, and home, like you did, and more. But, I can see why you think of mortals the way you do. I'm no innocent angel, either." He admitted it outwardly; it might have been the first time he voiced it. "I've hurt and killed others before, and I didn't have any qualms against it. But, I've never killed anyone who didn't deserve it--who didn't hurt me on purpose." He looked at her more directly. "I hope you don't kill anyone who doesn't deserve it, either. There are mortals--beings--who are scum, like the ones who massacred your family for whatever they were seeking without any meaning like self-defense, because they don't have any of that meaning to themselves that they can connect to others. But, there are exceptions too, you see? Like Willa, and the children up there--" he gestured with one hand where the mountainside village was. "There are more people like them out there."

He really, really hoped he could get through to her. Somehow. Even a bit.