An excerpt from the chapter. It reads as follows:
Jackie was no stranger to death, or to the act of killing. The Heap made for an unforgiving home—edible plants were few in number, and the majority of its inhabitants were intelligent hunters. Some were more beastly in nature, such as the Kuzumade, but most had similar levels of intelligence to Humans—not to mention similar body plans.
Where was the line between a 'person’ and a ‘monster’? Recent events had convinced Jackie that there wasn’t really a line at all. Lii was a monster—a Mimic—but she was clearly also a person. They would have previously considered Kritta monsters, but now they knew that civilized Kritta lived outside of the Heap. In the right circumstances, could even something like a Kumori be a civilized person?
Such ponderings weren’t of importance at the moment. What was important was that Jackie had, by necessity, killed throughout their entire life, and that included killing things that could be argued to be people. That was simply the normal way of life for them. Things hadn’t seemed much different in the outside world, either; they had larger groups of people and fewer intelligent monsters, and they used terms like ‘war’, but it seemed that this world, too, was built on a foundation of violence and killing.
Mythos, Chapter 29 — Reckless Idiots is out now! This is the finale of the second saga.
Things are winding down from the battle, but Jackie's having a bit of a crisis...
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