[You have fun with that. Alucard had far more fun looking for Bad Taxidermy in the end.]
I am not. [The response to the question is firm enough. But he gives a moment of careful consideration to the rest of what she's said. There's a point or two, but the word still makes him bristle.
He folds his arms over his chest, eyes moving sidelong to Ciri. From where he is now, he can note the scar, but there's nothing made of it. If she is so connected to this kind of study, it only follows.]
Then why not simply delineate the thing by what it is in specifics? Especially if bears a human shape? I'd call that scorpion a scorpion, not a monster, just as I'd ask to be seen as a dhampir rather than a monster, or an associate as a mage and a scholar rather than a witch. [Just as a totally random example.] The term, in my experience, just makes it easier to bring harm on the unknown.
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I am not. [The response to the question is firm enough. But he gives a moment of careful consideration to the rest of what she's said. There's a point or two, but the word still makes him bristle.
He folds his arms over his chest, eyes moving sidelong to Ciri. From where he is now, he can note the scar, but there's nothing made of it. If she is so connected to this kind of study, it only follows.]
Then why not simply delineate the thing by what it is in specifics? Especially if bears a human shape? I'd call that scorpion a scorpion, not a monster, just as I'd ask to be seen as a dhampir rather than a monster, or an associate as a mage and a scholar rather than a witch. [Just as a totally random example.] The term, in my experience, just makes it easier to bring harm on the unknown.