This has so thoroughly distracted him from being sad that Idia was going that he's now just lodged in confused. His tail twitches unhappily behind him, the erasure of memory not something he fears, amazingly, but one of the things over which he has complicated feelings. Less for himself, and more for others; for what it obscures in the concept of justice or accountability, but he is from a world where that degree of control cannot happen so widely. Specifically, yes, but not so generally as a whole group of people, a whole school.
"So what do you do, just intermarry forever? Or do you bring in new blood and then wipe their existence out of the larger world too? What about taking orphans in"
... When you come from a giant sprawling clan, it's... a consideration.
nibbles on spoilers with tea
This has so thoroughly distracted him from being sad that Idia was going that he's now just lodged in confused. His tail twitches unhappily behind him, the erasure of memory not something he fears, amazingly, but one of the things over which he has complicated feelings. Less for himself, and more for others; for what it obscures in the concept of justice or accountability, but he is from a world where that degree of control cannot happen so widely. Specifically, yes, but not so generally as a whole group of people, a whole school.
"So what do you do, just intermarry forever? Or do you bring in new blood and then wipe their existence out of the larger world too? What about taking orphans in"
... When you come from a giant sprawling clan, it's... a consideration.