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[biteoffherhead]

[From the moment that the newcomers entered the village, coming from the South when she was towards the North, Moro showed many more signs of severe territoriality. The trees have layers of bark clawed into, pawprints are stomped into the ground, fur is shed, and various gory or gruesome little marks all around the village.

Moro herself is persistently circling the whole village, firmly policing who is going in and out. It takes her a long time to go around, as she walks carefully to try and not miss anything, but where she does catch someone, she leaves them be only if she recognize them as Lucetian. Any newbies may have a little issue, but if you can convince Moro that you're really from Luceti, it'll be easy to leave.


But Lucetians will note that Moro is incredibly violent and aggressive towards the visitors. She snaps at them long before speaking to them, chases them until they retreat into the village, and some come so close that they come back with ripped shirts, some torn out feathers, and one hell of an adrenaline rush.

As the power goes out, some undoubtedly attempt to cut the trees for firewood... and those do get more seriously attacked. Or don't come back - perhaps they make it deeper into the woods, but it's also likely that Moro kills and possibly eats them. But never a Lucetian - she leads them to dry, dead wood, so that the trees are spared.

She was behaving so well! Feel free to come and ask her what's got her so murderous, catch her in the act of attacking some hapless newcomer trying to cut wood, or if your character only just came to Luceti recently, get mistaken for a newcomer.]

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Comments

[biteoffherhead]

And you believe those problems would be dissolved if I let untrustworthy humans into my forest?

[tsuntrader]

They might be relieved on all accounts if you barked before biting.

[biteoffherhead]

If I intended to kill them outright, I would have done so. I let many escape after only taking hands or arms.

[tsuntrader]

Which makes them angry. Which makes them distrust everyone and consider your cause nothing but opposition.

[biteoffherhead]

They will stay in human territory because that is where they belong. Those whose scents are familiar can do as they wish, as they have done - they know how to respect the forest. Surely they see the blood on the ground - only fools march in regardless.

[tsuntrader]

They'll go in anyway to try their best to survive. Do you even know the difference between these strangers and regular newcomers?

[biteoffherhead]

I know the scents of all who were here before.

[Moro. Moro that's creepy.]

[tsuntrader]

For someone who keeps going on and on about how humans think too much, you really don't take that fact into account.

[biteoffherhead]

I suppose I can't understand anything that would risk death when it is made very clear to them.

[tsuntrader]

[He opens his mouth to speak, but- god dammit. Give him a moment, he needs a moment to wince at the stupid bite from that stupid Ekans that stupid Rocket Grunt had-]

[biteoffherhead]

And they cause you such harm?

[A chuckle. Come on, you could easily solve your problem just by killing all of the problem people! Still, she knows that won't go over at all, especially not with a stubborn child like Silver.]

Tend to that. Don't be a stubborn fool, you will be too much like me.

[tsuntrader]

...I did. [There's not much else he can do.] This was thanks to something personal.

[biteoffherhead]

So you did attempt to solve the problem! Perhaps with more of a bite, you wouldn't have been bitten.

[tsuntrader]

It wasn't that. People interfered.

[biteoffherhead]

You should have disciplined them, then.

I taught you how to bite. Why did you not use the fangs I gave you?

[tsuntrader]

Because my actions affect more than me.

[biteoffherhead]

What does it affect?

[tsuntrader]

My friends and family. Their friends and family. I wouldn't just be hurting one person.

[biteoffherhead]

You protect what matters to you.

[tsuntrader]

And other people. And the thirty foot radius of space that gets burnt to a crisp thanks to a couple of sentences.

[biteoffherhead]

I care not for the consequences others suffer as I protect what I hold dear.

A human life weighs no more to me than the life of a tree, or an animal. The consequences they feel are no more or less than the consequences humans feel.

I do not care for these humans that have arrived. And given the choice, I will not choose even the humans I have fondness and tolerance of over the forest. I am a forest god.

[tsuntrader]

And I'm pretty sure that's the attitude newcomers think we all have, so they think both the village and the forest have the same amount of danger as a result. ...I'm not gonna give you some lecture on peace like baldy, either. I just don't like seeing people get hurt if they don't need to.

But who am I to tell you what to do or think? I'm just some human.

[biteoffherhead]

And I do not enjoy seeing too many trees cut to be casually burned, or for humans to stockpile, just in case.

You are. But at least you are an interesting sort of fool. Were you as any other human, I would have grown tired of your challenges and simply snapped you in half and be done with you.

1/2

[tsuntrader]

[...Was that a compliment? ...No, couldn't be. But he's not exactly inclined to question it.]

[tsuntrader]

[For a second, he mulls it over. Moro usually has reserves of dead, fallen branches, doesn't she? ...But... Is she saving that for the people from Luceti?]

...You're looking out for us. [In the most roundabout way, but... He can't deny that.]