She only nods at first to signify that she knows well enough how to set up a camp, but doesn't quite have it in her to go the lighthearted route just yet, to let go of the strange things he says in favor of how she knew because of Gonta teaching her, of foraging expeditions into the mountains, of nights at the lumber yard when poor weather had stranded her and prevented her from going down the winding rock paths.
Instead she quickly begins unfolding the tarp, kicking debris and dust out of the way with her hooves to prepare the space as she goes, until-]
You should be afraid.
[She doesn't quite mean that he should live in fear, even if that's one way to interpret that string of words. There was a lot to be afraid of in the world. Wolves. Bears. War. Plague. Bandits. Famine. Landslides. Fire. But-]
A jinba I know always said that humans were terrifying and strong exactly because they're afraid of things. Because they're weaker than jinba, so they're always inventing and working to make new things and new weapons.
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She only nods at first to signify that she knows well enough how to set up a camp, but doesn't quite have it in her to go the lighthearted route just yet, to let go of the strange things he says in favor of how she knew because of Gonta teaching her, of foraging expeditions into the mountains, of nights at the lumber yard when poor weather had stranded her and prevented her from going down the winding rock paths.
Instead she quickly begins unfolding the tarp, kicking debris and dust out of the way with her hooves to prepare the space as she goes, until-]
You should be afraid.
[She doesn't quite mean that he should live in fear, even if that's one way to interpret that string of words. There was a lot to be afraid of in the world. Wolves. Bears. War. Plague. Bandits. Famine. Landslides. Fire. But-]
A jinba I know always said that humans were terrifying and strong exactly because they're afraid of things. Because they're weaker than jinba, so they're always inventing and working to make new things and new weapons.
[And he's human... right?]