[ Weird. It's just... weird. All of it. And they both keep saying it, as if the word means everything, or anything at all.
Slowly, Killua pushes himself up and off the bed, clothes and hair nap-rumpled, the sheets finally slept-in. ]
Sounds like you have been learning. I wonder if it's better to talk more to people who came here as humans, and then realized this world had other ideas. Rather than taking direction only from resources meant to explore this place's natural species. It's probably different, isn't it?
[ He's moved closer as he speaks, standing over Gon's shoulder to peer down at the book. ]
What do you mean? Like the... behavioral differences in animals you were talking about earlier?
[ ...shit. The more they talk about this, even though he's the one who insisted that getting educated was the best idea, the worse Killua feels. For some reason, it makes him feel guilty. He got lucky, didn't he? It seems unfair. Gon has to contend with the horror of potentially transforming, physically and mentally, into a literal monster he doesn't understand.
What if he does end up being one of the bug-looking ones? A feline Turnskin? Something else? Just thinking about it makes Killua's skin crawl, and he feels instantly even guiltier.
It's not Gon's fault.
This time, at least, it's not Gon's fault.
And he feels worse and worse thinking of it in those terms. ]
Tell me about what you learned. I'll ask around too.
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[ Weird. It's just... weird. All of it. And they both keep saying it, as if the word means everything, or anything at all.
Slowly, Killua pushes himself up and off the bed, clothes and hair nap-rumpled, the sheets finally slept-in. ]
Sounds like you have been learning. I wonder if it's better to talk more to people who came here as humans, and then realized this world had other ideas. Rather than taking direction only from resources meant to explore this place's natural species. It's probably different, isn't it?
[ He's moved closer as he speaks, standing over Gon's shoulder to peer down at the book. ]
What do you mean? Like the... behavioral differences in animals you were talking about earlier?
[ ...shit. The more they talk about this, even though he's the one who insisted that getting educated was the best idea, the worse Killua feels. For some reason, it makes him feel guilty. He got lucky, didn't he? It seems unfair. Gon has to contend with the horror of potentially transforming, physically and mentally, into a literal monster he doesn't understand.
What if he does end up being one of the bug-looking ones? A feline Turnskin? Something else? Just thinking about it makes Killua's skin crawl, and he feels instantly even guiltier.
It's not Gon's fault.
This time, at least, it's not Gon's fault.
And he feels worse and worse thinking of it in those terms. ]
Tell me about what you learned. I'll ask around too.