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[biteoffherhead]

[So, Moro's calmed down significantly since the arrival of the Kin'Corans. There was a bit of tension at first, with the arrival of new Lucetians, but she soon recognized their arrival pattern and left them be.

As their arrivals slowed down, Moro began to interact again. Namely, by dragging fallen wood from deep in the forest and leaving it by the village edge - something that she's done before. She's also bringing out branches of trees that have acorns and seeds still growing on them - hint hint, so to speak. She's got several other small things, such as various wild fruits and a few plants she recognized as edible thanks to San's diet before.

Moro herself will be approachable, not snarling or growling at all, and almost (aaaalmost) looking apologetic for her extreme behavior. Almost.]

Comments

[tsuntrader]

Why are you so fixated on rage and hatred, anyway?

[biteoffherhead]

Fixated? You would be resentful of those who have burned away your home, killed your god, and whose bullet lies in your chest. Even here, if I forget even for a moment, I have that painful ache to remind me.

[tsuntrader]

[Idly, somewhat subconsciously, he puts a hand on his chest. Would he be able to let that kind of grudge pass if it was him...?]

...None of those people are here. That's the reason why you haven't mauled everyone that's stepped in the forest, right?

I'm not belittling what happened, but there's nothing to direct that anger and hatred at. Yet you hold onto it like it's all you are.

[biteoffherhead]

I don't understand what you are saying.

[tsuntrader]

I'm saying that holding onto your anger and bitterness is pointless, at least right here and right now.

[biteoffherhead]

Pointless?

[Since when does her anger need a point? At this point, Silver is speaking a foreign language to her. What's he even getting at?]

[tsuntrader]

Pointless.

You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to not be angry.

[biteoffherhead]

A god is driven with purpose. My bitterness gives me the strength to fight!

[tsuntrader]

Yeah, and why do you always have to fight? Why not save that bitterness for when you have to fight? [And tonight on projecting on a god damn wolf god...]

[biteoffherhead]

Fighting is my purpose, boy. It is the reason I was born.

[tsuntrader]

I refuse to believe that anything or anyone was born just to fight. [Not to eventually fight, not to maybe fight, not to end up fighting almost always anyway, but only to fight...]

[biteoffherhead]

Then you refuse to be aware of my purpose.

[tsuntrader]

You have a purpose. I have a purpose. Just about everyone does.

But those purposes don't exist here. There's no point.

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[biteoffherhead]

No point.

[She scoffs at first, looking revolted as usual. So there was no point to her protecting this little pathetic forest? Perhaps there's an element of truth to it - she was born to protect the Forest Spirit's land, not this one. To protect the Forest Spirit from the reaches of man, and there was no such purpose here.

But there was no purpose like that at home, any longer. The forest would die. The Forest Spirit would die.]

[biteoffherhead]

[...but at that moment, it occurs to her.]

...You are right.

[tsuntrader]

[And another thing-

...Wait-] What?

[biteoffherhead]

There is no point to me, any longer. The forest was doomed, I was too weak to protect it, and the Forest Spirit must have known that. That is why he let me rest forever.

There is no point to me being here. I should be dead.

[tsuntrader]

[...Moro that's not what he-] That's very black and white of you.

[biteoffherhead]

It is true! It must be. When the Malnosso dragged me away from my final rest, they did not give me any purpose. They could not give me any purpose.

It was pointless. My existence here is pointless. I should still be dead, as it was meant to be.

[tsuntrader]

[...Moro, that's not what he... That's not...

...He keeps quiet. He's at a total loss for words.]

[biteoffherhead]

You are silent because that truth startles you? But it doesn't mean a thing to you. Humans have no purpose.

[tsuntrader]

[Humans have no purpose. That's laughable.]

I wish that was true. [He can't accept Moro's logic. He won't.]

[biteoffherhead]

Humans are not gods. Do not be so arrogant.

[POT. MEET. KETTLE.]

[tsuntrader]

But we're not purposeless. If we didn't have a purpose, we wouldn't exist.

[biteoffherhead]

Your purpose is to live, as the Forest Spirit intended. Your purpose is to die, when the Forest Spirit wishes it.

I have that purpose. But I have purpose beyond that, and beyond what you humans have. What mere animals, and even the meek spirits have. I exist as an extension of the Forest Spirit's will, and I fight to protect him.

Without him, my life is pointless. I am but a mere beast.