[She stops shaking him, but she doesn't let go of him. Anger has always been easier for her- it covers sadness, it covers loneliness, it covers weakness...
But he says "Almyrans", his people?, are hated and feared in his land, and that doesn't make immediate sense to her, it does nothing to aid her understanding.]
What is there to hate and fear about you? You're human!
[Not to a woman whose race had been enslaved on the basis of being inhuman, on an island where all humans largely belonged to the same race and culture. In the chaotic spike of her emotions, she defaults only to what she knows, how things are in her own home. And if it were that...
What could a human know of being hated or persecuted to the point they felt they had to hide their identity?]
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But he says "Almyrans", his people?, are hated and feared in his land, and that doesn't make immediate sense to her, it does nothing to aid her understanding.]
What is there to hate and fear about you? You're human!
[Not to a woman whose race had been enslaved on the basis of being inhuman, on an island where all humans largely belonged to the same race and culture. In the chaotic spike of her emotions, she defaults only to what she knows, how things are in her own home. And if it were that...
What could a human know of being hated or persecuted to the point they felt they had to hide their identity?]