<span style="color: #663300">"animals are unworthy of trust and the only respect they deserve is to be left alone to live their lives or to be hunted and eaten. all i see is that the inherent unpredictability of the beast turned out in your favor. this time."</span>every muscle in Isabelle's body was tighter then a bowstring and the scent of her fear would be enough to obliterate every other smell at this distance. she shook her head when she was released and shuddered a little.<span style="color: #663300">"i hope you are right."</span>she squeezed Rayne's hand but she kept looking around at their surroundings.<span style="color: #663300">"no, you don't understand. in over one hundred thousand years of recorded history tens of thousands of Seraphim have tried to befriend animals of every kind and every single time it ended with the Seraphim dead, killed by the very animal they tried to befriend. many of them were killed after spending years or even decades with the animal they sought to befriend."</span>she shook her head and looked down for a moment.<span style="color: #663300">"nature on your world is friendly and feels good to your senses... the Gintala forests are by far the dominant ecosystem on our world and you said it was horrible. that environment shaped the other plants, the animals and my people." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>