Imagine, if you will, that you are huddled in a house. That you pray and plead and hope that that storm off the coast, the one that's been there for days, the one that stops the fishing fleets from going out, that not even the bravest of stormriders will go near, doesn't bring something far, far worse than rain and thunder with it when it does eventually make landfall.
[Yet her face says it's happened before; that she's seen the aftermath of said storms.] That it doesn't attract a god or ten and make everything worse. That when you have to go out to drive the monsters off that it's not as bad as last time, yet you know you'll still end up with death and blood as good people die to protect a town.
You hide inside the same house because the winter was so bad it drove in monsters that typically avoid human settlement, but also brought predatory ice-types and yuki-onna right into towns, never mind your town has to deal with idiots who lose control of their monsters for so many reasons it's not funny, only sad and tragic. You have to deal with the aftermath- [Eva cuts herself off with a shuddering breath.]
Now put all that with human intelligence- Gods. She's a person, yes. Yet, and I do mean yet, she has all the instincts of a monster and I know what side of her would win out if, say, something spooked her, or attacked her or the like-
[Eva looks him dead in the eyes now.] It's not the human side.
Is it any wonder the world hates and fears them so much? Why I'm- I'm a Traitor to them?
Sorry for the delay.
Imagine, if you will, that you are huddled in a house. That you pray and plead and hope that that storm off the coast, the one that's been there for days, the one that stops the fishing fleets from going out, that not even the bravest of stormriders will go near, doesn't bring something far, far worse than rain and thunder with it when it does eventually make landfall.
[Yet her face says it's happened before; that she's seen the aftermath of said storms.] That it doesn't attract a god or ten and make everything worse. That when you have to go out to drive the monsters off that it's not as bad as last time, yet you know you'll still end up with death and blood as good people die to protect a town.
You hide inside the same house because the winter was so bad it drove in monsters that typically avoid human settlement, but also brought predatory ice-types and yuki-onna right into towns, never mind your town has to deal with idiots who lose control of their monsters for so many reasons it's not funny, only sad and tragic. You have to deal with the aftermath- [Eva cuts herself off with a shuddering breath.]
Now put all that with human intelligence- Gods. She's a person, yes. Yet, and I do mean yet, she has all the instincts of a monster and I know what side of her would win out if, say, something spooked her, or attacked her or the like-
[Eva looks him dead in the eyes now.] It's not the human side.
Is it any wonder the world hates and fears them so much? Why I'm- I'm a Traitor to them?