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The Reaper gave Lizzy and West a sad look. "You can call them what they are; we're not the Boogeymen. You want to know if there are humans trying to stop the Hunters?"

"... No." Van shifted uncomfortably. "There's not many humans that can see us to begin with. The ones we are in contact with, we know where to find them, but they're scattered, and not the most influential humans around. They're just regular humans."

"But it would be terrible to ask them to do more than they already do. Humans don't dissipate like we do. They're not made of FEAR. We would likely be sending the only humans that can help us to their permanent deaths!" She had to take a moment there to take it back down a couple of notches. "And that's unacceptable."

"But don't worry, scarelings, we all want the same thing - to be safe. And we believe it begins with ending these cycles of needless violence. Things will get better." She smiled widely, though there was some uncertainty in her eyes and voice when she spoke the next word under her breath: "Eventually..."

Just what Amityville needed, a couple of human-hugging pacifists.

Israfel practically leaped from his spot. "SO WE CAN BE FRIENDS WITH THEM?" His wings went out happily. "OH JACK That is very good. I don't want them to hate us. Being scared is nice but not hating. That is mean. Oh Oh another question!" He waved his arms about. "What's your name Miss? Do you have lots of friends that can see us too? Do you ever visit Halloween? What is the human world like? You look really old do you make spookies I think you would be good at making spookies. My name is Israfel by the way. Your house is very nice did you decorate it yourself?"


Someone needed to stop Israfel. They really did. That or install an 'Off button' on him.

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King was.. better. The cat other student was around other cat students and it helped mask the smell. Helped. He'd need to work on his self control. As things were explained to him, he nodded. It made sense but- Looking at the two graduates he frowned. His tribe had been in the decline for many years until they had elected to kill a human to renew the local fear of the 'winter wolves'. "Pardon, but what of tribes that suffer from sharp declines in FEAR harvesting?" He didn't want to offend but, as far as he knew, killing a human every few years was necessary. "If people do not believe in legends in that we exist, how might we gather fear? How does one scare a human when they have nothing to fear to start with?"

His arms crossed, though his voice held little emotion besides genuine curiosity. "My tribe suffered for many Octobers due to the land the elders scared upon having no humans fearing them from such passive manners as I understand it. Once a human fell to claws and fangs, they believed, and while we do not hunt humans, it has been deemed necessary of my tribe that when the FEAR wanes, so shall the restrictions. How else might my people combat such a thing?"

None of this was making very much sense to Shine. She vaguely understood the importance of some of these things from her classes, but her preference of hiding in her room rather than visiting dangerous, adventurous places didn't give her much of a drive to make sense of any of this. And she couldn't see the visitors over the crowd anyway, so...she moved to break away from the group, largely disinterested and very confused.

It didn't take her very long to find something that (mostly) made sense - Emily! She might have smiled had she not realized that her bandmate appeared to be on the verge of tears. Were the too-many-other people bothering her, too?

Concerned, she pulled the lollipop out of her mouth and urged her to take it, brow furrowed. This was crucial. Candy was the only way to stop the crying.

"............" Somehow this was sounding like a lot of bull to Roch. Something like "Let's be friendly to them and they'll be friendly to us!" just didn't WORK after being whipped across the back because you were trying to save your pals from the cages they stuck them in.

"Maybe it'd work with normal humans, I wouldn't know, this lady's the first I've met," he said quietly. "But the hunters are kidnapping us, sticking us in cages, and turning us into weapons. I REALLY doubt offering them a friendly smile and a handshake is gonna turn the situation around."

Nuru followed the group obediently into the tent. At first he just assumed the woman was a reaper... but then it seemed to.. not be the case at all. Rather than acting furious or frightened about it. He tried to get right in the woman's face.

"What's it like being a human? Does it hurt?" A silly set of questions perhaps but he mentally classed humans about where humans might generally have classed zombies. Only without the brain eating chaos.

Malodore was thoroughly perplexed. Of course, humans weren't all precisely the same, but it hadn't really thought about that beyond Hunters on one angry side and then the faceless mass of mankind on the other. "So we just kill the ones that are trying to kill us, si? It's clear that these Hunters are the ones upsetting the natural balance. With them removed from the calculations, everything returns to the way it should be. That's fair, is it not?"

It was fine with this as a compromise.



Anna, meanwhile, just watched with a combination of awe and confusion.

Preserving humans so that they could continue to be frightened and supply them with an endless source of Fear? She was fine with that.
Telling them not to kill humans because that would be a cause for retaliation? She was fine with that too.
In fact, the lesson that was being taught here was perfectly fine.

Except that there was no way in HELL that Edel was going to just sit back and do nothing about the Hunters. Even the members of DETH have admitted – they were the ones disturbing the balance. The frost demon had never taken issue with the normal humans, even after that field trip. After all, they were just harmless sources of Fear, as the professors of this institution were so keen to emphasize on.

< If someone attacks you, of course you can attack back, but then you and they are on the same level, are you not?>

Those words from the professor resounded in her head, annoying her greatly. It wasn't as simple as that. Not when some of them were ...

Alright, she'd admit it. She had a personal grudge against the hunters.