[He doesn't mind that; he'll join her on the bed without any sort of complaint, anyway.]
...You remember how I told you that our bodies work differently? That when we die, we just leave dust behind? That's because monsters' bodies are composed entirely of our souls. Once that's gone, that's it.
Because of the whole soul thing, we're also a lot weaker than humans are in physical combat. Our ability to fight is directly tied to both how much we're willing to fight - if we don't really want to, we can't - and...also to how much someone wants to fight us. If a human wants to kill us, they can do it in one hit. Just because they want to. Because their souls are stronger than ours, and because they hate us enough to do it.
[He laughs a little, the sound dry.]
There's a human in the Underground. It's not going well.
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...You remember how I told you that our bodies work differently? That when we die, we just leave dust behind? That's because monsters' bodies are composed entirely of our souls. Once that's gone, that's it.
Because of the whole soul thing, we're also a lot weaker than humans are in physical combat. Our ability to fight is directly tied to both how much we're willing to fight - if we don't really want to, we can't - and...also to how much someone wants to fight us. If a human wants to kill us, they can do it in one hit. Just because they want to. Because their souls are stronger than ours, and because they hate us enough to do it.
[He laughs a little, the sound dry.]
There's a human in the Underground. It's not going well.