[The answer comes back in a memory, a voice not Viral's own but a young man's - evolving beyond who we were a moment before - but underlying that, Lordgenome's a beastman will never surpass a human, what he was made for, what his entire race was made for, static and maintaining the stasis quo, Have you finally snapped out of your thousand-year doldrums, Spiral King?, made by a man who survived without living and condemned his entire species to the same.
And the uncertainty that comes with being the one who was different, the one who chased the answers, who - they have a right to live where they please - wound up fighting the human government on the behalf of other humans. How it's impossible to know if he was (born, made, there's not enough distinction) different from the beginning, to know if he changed along the way, but the knowledge that he is different now. Out of place among his own kind - so many of whom, after humans moved in, have kept to the same jobs and roles that they were born for, and the prisons full of warriors who couldn't put down what they were made for, they just couldn't - and out of place among humans.
Humans, the axis around which the spiral spins.
But a tightening grip, because that doesn't mean that they're nothing just for not being human.]
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And the uncertainty that comes with being the one who was different, the one who chased the answers, who - they have a right to live where they please - wound up fighting the human government on the behalf of other humans. How it's impossible to know if he was (born, made, there's not enough distinction) different from the beginning, to know if he changed along the way, but the knowledge that he is different now. Out of place among his own kind - so many of whom, after humans moved in, have kept to the same jobs and roles that they were born for, and the prisons full of warriors who couldn't put down what they were made for, they just couldn't - and out of place among humans.
Humans, the axis around which the spiral spins.
But a tightening grip, because that doesn't mean that they're nothing just for not being human.]