You do not need to think in terms of "should," Abigail.
[This is a segue, though, a reassurance to steady her while he considers what else she's said. There isn't much to go on, at least not much that he didn't already know. He'll ask about the song later, he thinks, and even if he's almost guaranteed to neither recognize it nor know the significance of it, he can always research it. He is even familiar with her statement: she does not want to be scared anymore. He doesn't want her to be scared.
He should, he thinks, have done more for that by now than he has.]
What most people fail to understand is that humans are animals. Humans themselves taint that knowledge with a negative influence, as though merely being born one species instead of another makes a life inherently worth less. As though humans are not, to a deer or a dog or a bird, every bit as absurd and unnecessary to survival.
Is the forest familiar to you? The one in your dream, do you know it?
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[This is a segue, though, a reassurance to steady her while he considers what else she's said. There isn't much to go on, at least not much that he didn't already know. He'll ask about the song later, he thinks, and even if he's almost guaranteed to neither recognize it nor know the significance of it, he can always research it. He is even familiar with her statement: she does not want to be scared anymore. He doesn't want her to be scared.
He should, he thinks, have done more for that by now than he has.]
What most people fail to understand is that humans are animals. Humans themselves taint that knowledge with a negative influence, as though merely being born one species instead of another makes a life inherently worth less. As though humans are not, to a deer or a dog or a bird, every bit as absurd and unnecessary to survival.
Is the forest familiar to you? The one in your dream, do you know it?