Heroist
- Hmm-m-m, heh-heh-heh! Once a curious story happened to one of my countrywomen - she disguised herself as a human and made an important man fall in love with her, they engaged in all sorts of mundane nonsense typical of your kind, read books together, held hands, went for walks and admired the scenery, said all sorts of sweet nothings to each other, but one day her illusion faded and her true nature, including our ears which are long compared to yours, was revealed to his eyes! She immediately grew wary, her face contorted, and she asks him with a disdainful and angry tone, "How did your heart manage to overcome my charms? That should not be possible!", and he says to her - "life saw fit to endow me with a mind unlike that of ordinary men, and I am, alas, incapable of losing my own will." This answer puzzled her even more than before, and she nearly shouts at him, "So it turns out you knew everything from the very start?! What were you trying to achieve by playing the fool?!" And do you know what he answers her? "I never played the fool, I am a genuine fool through and through." And she says to him, "Are you trying to tell me that you knew everything, but it was all still real to you? Ah-ha-ha! What absurd words are coming from your mouth right now! Do you not know the nature of my kind?". Ugh, so much emotion in that dialogue, and the ending is an absolute bombshell! He declares to her, "I know you will never love me, and that like any other man I am worse than cattle or a toy to you, someone deserving only of contempt. But that does not matter, for my feelings for you are true, and I can do nothing about them." Can you imagine? What an idiot! Well, it all ended with him being unable at that moment to betray his duty to his "homeland" and throwing himself into the river along with her.
— Truly, a curious tale to hear! I might even call it romantic in tone... Hmm, that probably sounded strange! But still, such an outcome is infinitely better than if that man had used his immunity to separate your friend's head from her body or done something else to her, for instance? The curiosity of our kind often borders on madness. Or perhaps the opposite story would have happened, had he not possessed a fortified mind, hm? Or maybe they would have continued coexisting until all his loud "love" turned into the poison of a corrupted heart? In our world, only death is a constant, and the pursuit of euphoria always turns into treacherous betrayal.
— Ha, forgive me, forgive me, sometimes the image of a thousand-year-old crone seizes my imagination. But the motive is now quite clear to me. Such tales fill the Iron Land, and with all the perverted shades of human nature, you will likely still have plenty of opportunity to indulge your curiosity.