( there's something about that that doesn't quite ring right to her, but in a way that would be difficult to untangle in casual conversation with a person she's just met and she takes her time to think about how she wants to answer it instead of the kneejerk thing that comes to mind. what she settles on, eventually, is— ) One side's more like to hurt your feelings and one more to slaughter your family, so they're not exactly weighted the same in that conversation. Not that no elf has never done harm to the elfblooded,
( thinking of herian, at once, and her ruined ear, )
it's just— I imagine, as an elf, it might be hard to trust someone who can travel far enough that harming them becomes a crime. That we don't always get the same sense of kinship doesn't feel an in kind unfairness, you know.
( once, she might have said they never do, but she's lived more since then, learned more, gone further. it had felt good, actually, to be alix's little sister in halamshiral. eventually, as she unlocks a cabinet to retrieve what she's been hunting for so she can rejoin ness at the sofas, ) If elves were treated differently by humans, maybe they'd feel differently about their human children. It feels like the one side, to me.
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( there's something about that that doesn't quite ring right to her, but in a way that would be difficult to untangle in casual conversation with a person she's just met and she takes her time to think about how she wants to answer it instead of the kneejerk thing that comes to mind. what she settles on, eventually, is— ) One side's more like to hurt your feelings and one more to slaughter your family, so they're not exactly weighted the same in that conversation. Not that no elf has never done harm to the elfblooded,
( thinking of herian, at once, and her ruined ear, )
it's just— I imagine, as an elf, it might be hard to trust someone who can travel far enough that harming them becomes a crime. That we don't always get the same sense of kinship doesn't feel an in kind unfairness, you know.
( once, she might have said they never do, but she's lived more since then, learned more, gone further. it had felt good, actually, to be alix's little sister in halamshiral. eventually, as she unlocks a cabinet to retrieve what she's been hunting for so she can rejoin ness at the sofas, ) If elves were treated differently by humans, maybe they'd feel differently about their human children. It feels like the one side, to me.