The researcher was curious, for sure. The way she was talking...it didn't suggest that she liked her kind, either. Why was that? Noishe could not resist but ask quietly, "Why do you hate them in the way you do?"

'Mistakes...' The arshis closed his eyes. Many mistakes had been made, even in the little he realized that he knew. Was Home a mistake, then? Maybe it was...a blemish, a scar on the face of the world. A tribute to mistake and folly? His kind were not blameless for everything, either, yet...they never caused wide-scale destruction...