It gets a laugh out of Vlad, but it isn't a particularly kind one.
You sound just like her, begging me to teach them. To make a difference in this world, acting as men do.
But here, perhaps, comes the first real flash of just how deeply his guilt and remorse is plaguing him, wrapped up in his bitterness over comparisons to human men. He had been traveling as one, after all, when his journeys had taken him far away from his wife.
Too far to learn of her plight and reach her in time, the way that his son had managed to.
It's a moment that lends some clarity to many of the tendencies he's previously shown — his rejection of humanity, his preference for acting as a monster, his ire when his half-human son voices opinions that bend in that direction. He was imitating a man, when this came to pass. Small wonder that he has no further desire to do so any longer.]
mom has to go get the broom and knock them down
It gets a laugh out of Vlad, but it isn't a particularly kind one.
You sound just like her, begging me to teach them. To make a difference in this world, acting as men do.
But here, perhaps, comes the first real flash of just how deeply his guilt and remorse is plaguing him, wrapped up in his bitterness over comparisons to human men. He had been traveling as one, after all, when his journeys had taken him far away from his wife.
Too far to learn of her plight and reach her in time, the way that his son had managed to.
It's a moment that lends some clarity to many of the tendencies he's previously shown — his rejection of humanity, his preference for acting as a monster, his ire when his half-human son voices opinions that bend in that direction. He was imitating a man, when this came to pass. Small wonder that he has no further desire to do so any longer.]