[Was this not common knowledge already?! Perhaps Byleth was doing well enough that on first impressions, he came across as socially able! Byleth felt tentatively pleased about this, entirely unbothered about Set clutching his face between his claws. His hands were warm, so it was fine. Also Byleth could just stab him if he tried anything else.]
As a child, learning how to survive was more important than effective communication. You don't need to communicate to sever someone's femoral artery in their groin, after all.
[Then, abruptly, as if the Rube Goldberg machine that was Byleth's brain had just finished processing it and cannonballed it to the very forefront of his mind:]
no subject
Not really.
[Was this not common knowledge already?! Perhaps Byleth was doing well enough that on first impressions, he came across as socially able! Byleth felt tentatively pleased about this, entirely unbothered about Set clutching his face between his claws. His hands were warm, so it was fine. Also Byleth could just stab him if he tried anything else.]
As a child, learning how to survive was more important than effective communication. You don't need to communicate to sever someone's femoral artery in their groin, after all.
[Then, abruptly, as if the Rube Goldberg machine that was Byleth's brain had just finished processing it and cannonballed it to the very forefront of his mind:]
You're not human?