Shahrazad's dreamy expression morphs into something more serious. It was really about time she told someone aside from Ned about her world.
"No. It's very important that you understand there are very few like me. If others of my kind were to come- it would be a disaster. They don't view normal humans, Terrans, as people. They seem them as animals, a food source, or pets at the very best. Even nobles such as myself are no better than the majority who roam the earth freely. The nobles believe themselves above extorting blood, but would kill humans without a second thought and have. Our Great Mother allows it because she views the ones who live in my country as her property. Why would she care if something she sees as no better than furniture is destroyed?"
She shakes her head woefully. "I would be the same as them if not for my uncle. He would travel to cities on the outskirts of the Empire to help them with their defenses. It was there he raised me to believe that Methuselah and Terrans were the same. Since all my friends were Terrans and he saw to it I had little contact with the other nobles I never questioned it. It was only when I was older and had to leave his side to serve the Empire that I saw the way things were. I understood why he didn't want me near them."
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"No. It's very important that you understand there are very few like me. If others of my kind were to come- it would be a disaster. They don't view normal humans, Terrans, as people. They seem them as animals, a food source, or pets at the very best. Even nobles such as myself are no better than the majority who roam the earth freely. The nobles believe themselves above extorting blood, but would kill humans without a second thought and have. Our Great Mother allows it because she views the ones who live in my country as her property. Why would she care if something she sees as no better than furniture is destroyed?"
She shakes her head woefully. "I would be the same as them if not for my uncle. He would travel to cities on the outskirts of the Empire to help them with their defenses. It was there he raised me to believe that Methuselah and Terrans were the same. Since all my friends were Terrans and he saw to it I had little contact with the other nobles I never questioned it. It was only when I was older and had to leave his side to serve the Empire that I saw the way things were. I understood why he didn't want me near them."