She glances up at him, meets that glowing gaze with her own green regard. Then she blinks, and very nearly says, What the hell kind of question is that? Quintet's been encountering a lot of culture shock in the last few days, to say the least.
"Uh, well..." For all his size, it's a lot like talking to a kitten. Start from the basics, "...In Nature, people eat each other. They kill one another, predate on one another. Some people choose to live that way, because it's the base nature of the animal to do so; call those people Wild. They live as Nature's Law, but—"
She hesitates, then, and then sits, putting both forepaws onto Felwinter's helmet as if to lend her arguments a physical, rather than merely metaphorical, emphasis, "They're still people, just like you and I. The only difference is that they live outside of Society."
An embarrassment of sincerity; she has to look away for a moment, and compose herself. Quintet resists the urge to groom for comfort. Talk about kittens! how unprofessional. But the rest is easy; textbook definition. She'd always been an exemplary student.
"Society is what is formed when people come together, to rise above life and death, to work beyond the strictures of Nature in the service of our own betterment, and the betterment of one another. That is our Art; to overcome the base animal, and become ourselves most fully."
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"Uh, well..." For all his size, it's a lot like talking to a kitten. Start from the basics, "...In Nature, people eat each other. They kill one another, predate on one another. Some people choose to live that way, because it's the base nature of the animal to do so; call those people Wild. They live as Nature's Law, but—"
She hesitates, then, and then sits, putting both forepaws onto Felwinter's helmet as if to lend her arguments a physical, rather than merely metaphorical, emphasis, "They're still people, just like you and I. The only difference is that they live outside of Society."
An embarrassment of sincerity; she has to look away for a moment, and compose herself. Quintet resists the urge to groom for comfort. Talk about kittens! how unprofessional. But the rest is easy; textbook definition. She'd always been an exemplary student.
"Society is what is formed when people come together, to rise above life and death, to work beyond the strictures of Nature in the service of our own betterment, and the betterment of one another. That is our Art; to overcome the base animal, and become ourselves most fully."