text: ANONYMOUS

[imperceptus]

do you suppose it is ever truly possible to escape the circumstances of your birth?
to escape destiny?

Comments

[shoplifter]

There are reasons for everything. I don't make friends easily because I am strange and easy to anger, and I am unnatural to other children.

[imperceptus]

[ 'other children'. so he's talking to a kid. ]

yeah, most people find me pretty unnatural, too

[shoplifter]

Why is that? Are you strange-looking, or do you speak differently.

[imperceptus]

as strange as they come.

[shoplifter]

I don't look that strange, but I am very strange anyway.

My friend Gideon has a harder time. He has scales on his skin, and reptile eyes. He is very shy about it, I think.

[imperceptus]

sounds like a dragonborn. they get a lot of respect where i'm from--though it's often mixed with fear,
admittedly. people get like that around somebody that seems liable to eat you.

[shoplifter]

Oh.

I don't think Gideon would eat anyone. He doesn't eat very much, and his mouth is normal-sized.