Ophidian looked back at Karrie and sighed.<span style="color: #00b300"> "your so very nieve of how people are, you know that right? those stories, being all they have to go on, are what they believe. Naga are said to eat children, that the women can make sailors drown themselves with their song, that the males can spit venom thirty feet and crush a man in his armor with one and or our tail and those are just the common stories. if i could do half the shit its rumored a Naga could do Azshara would have conqured this world long ago... one man actually asked me if i could drag a ship down into the sea by myself. and then there was the Elf priestess who upon deciding i wasnt evil kissed me thinking it would turn me back into an Elf, she didnt like me or anything, she just heard that being a Naga was just a curse that would be lifted by the kiss of a Night Elf. but your right, i am a little more clumsy on land then a man with legs but i make up for it in traction and balance."</span>he sighed and shook his head.<span style="color: #00b300">"the worst part is that i understand where all those stories come from... in war its natural, some would even say important to dehumanize the enemy, it makes it easier to kill them. if you see the enemy as a child eating monster it makes it a good thing to kill them, if they are said to have dangerous powers, like spitting poison thirty feet, it makes soldiers cautious so they dont let their guard down. the rest is mostly bragging, 'i killed a beast that can crush a man in full plate with one hand' or 'our sister ship was hauled down by the beast but we fought it off' shit like that."</span>he gestured around<span style="color: #00b300">"a lot of these people are old enough to have grown up on those stories, hell, the first Human soldiers to fight the Naga are grandparents by now and old soldiers love to talk of their glory days. you and Karren were lucky, you grew up around books that had factual information in them, these people only know those war stories and tales of horror."</span>he looked back at her again and smiled though it didnt reach his eyes where a sadness had set in.<span style="color: #00b300">"no matter where i go i must face those stories and reactions, but im not going to let that rule my life, because at the end of the day its worth it to be around people. if i had run off and lived my life alone it might have been easier but then fear and hatred would have won and i wouldnt know you, or Karren, or Kitori... fighting this battle against fear and prejudice has given me more then my wildest dreams and i'm not about to give up now."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>