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[compos_mentis]

[Voice]

So. Paint me curious: how many of your guys have an oddly specific hatred of humans?

[This entry is voiced, but as for the background, well. It's her at a little tent-based campesite up in the mountains. She decided to try her hand at hiking over to the beach to check that out, and she's at a base camp of sorts. ...Yeah so stalking

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[one_green_eye]

[snort]...that's a good question. [it's not an answer to Buffy, honest, just something he was wondering, himself. Specific indeed.]

[compos_mentis]

Yeah? And here I was beginning to doubt myself. [That last part is... sarcastic. Well, probably. She says it deadpan.]

[one_green_eye]

[just a noncommittal hmm in response to that deadpan] Makes you wonder about humans.

[compos_mentis]

So you think they earned it?

[one_green_eye]

I don't know that hatred is ever earned.

But I wonder if the patterns of history are so similar, even between separate worlds.

[compos_mentis]

So how does hatred come to be?

[one_green_eye]

[a heh that says that's a question he'd quicker ask than answer] It seems to be a natural part of what it is to be human.

But apparently human traits aren't bound by biology. [it's why, ever since arriving here, he finds himself still using human to describe that odd mingling of feeling and rational thought-- regardless of the actual human-ness of the subject]

[compos_mentis]

That sounds like a human-centric view of things to my ears. [Even if she gets what he probably means, she's ribbing at his word choice]

[one_green_eye]

[just a mild smile] Yeah, probably so.

No matter how wide you try to cast your gaze, you can only stand in one place. [tilts his head slightly] Have a better viewpoint?

[compos_mentis]

Different. [That's lightly said, but there's a firm note in it. Better... well, she's not sure, both views have their merit] It's not a view most of the people here can have, what with being limited to their own mudballs. I'll bet more than half the people here have only encountered two or less sapient species other than their own.

[one_green_eye]

Heh. [he approves of that answer. Different being what he lives by.] I've heard some people here talk that way; but you're right, most of us have lived limited to one world. One country, even. Or some an even smaller space.

[compos_mentis]

I can name at least thirty sapient species off the top of my head, all of which have their own sense of what you're calling being "human."

[That tone she tries to keep neutral, but it gets annoyed - very annoyed - by the end of it. She's sick of people here having such a narrow perspective. She never realized how much she had started to take interstellar society for granted]

[one_green_eye]

[mildly, still-- if privately remarking on the tone] I'm not surprised.

I've met quite a few, even here. "Human" is just a word to describe-- like any category. [even if... it's still a very important one, to him]

[compos_mentis]

Right.

[With with the annoyed tone. There's a pause, and then some shuffling. she's actually getting something to chew on - a small animal's bone, but details. She needs something to bite into right now.]

Enjoying the answers I'm getting?

[one_green_eye]

[Jeez, is it that obvious?

....Of course he's been following all the answers. And smirks slightly]

Some are predictable, sometimes. [with an odd sort of affection] There are a lot of good-hearted people, here.

A pretty good mix of types, by my experience. But then [slight eyebrow raise] I've been told it's a narrow selection, all the same.

[compos_mentis]

Can't say I care that much about how they think to do a census. You might know better than me when it comes to divisions of thought.

[A pause... and then she bites down harder on the bone]

Name?