[Guess what was so nice it never showed up in my inbox at all? XD Not ignoring this thread, I swear! I realized I hadn't seen anything from it in a while and popped in here to check. Glad I did! Ooooh suddenly that makes more sense! [omg Giraffe are called kirin? That's sort of adorable.]]

"There's a difference between saying we are precisely the same and saying that inside, we are the same. We have feelings like they do, intelligence as they do... we begin our lives as they do. It, typically, isn't even until puberty that you can tell there is any sort of difference. We don't want the world to believe us nothing but dangerous. It... isn't as simple as you choose to see it. This is a fine balancing act, one that slowly we are coming out on top of." Thank you, in a great deal, to his sister. To show that there were, as there were with humans, people with dark souls who will do dark things, and those were the outliers.

"You cannot promise as such, because you are the type that once you discover such controversial matters, instead of gracefully ducking away, tend to say your piece on them." Charles arched an eyebrow in Aurus' direction, not-so-subtly pointing out Aurus', or perhaps the sylvari, bluntness in things.