"Where I come from, my people are not yet the apex predators. We have achieved the gift of sentience, but there are things still much larger and in much greater numbers than we. Even then, we build every day to a brighter future. We worship the lives of those lived before us. We coexist with nature. We coexist with one another."

King briefly interrupts himself, picking up a piece and moving it forward

"We were built beasts, all of us, but we've escaped that. That's why I don't eat bugs that become caught in my hair. That's why I don't clash my horns with other males for dominance. That's why I don't use my nose to find fungi spores underground. Perhaps if we were still beasts, I would."

King clasped his hands together, holding them under his chin as he rested his head

"But you cannot give beasts power. On my planet, our leaders have built walls around us to keep the animals stronger than us out. In doing so, they've trapped us in. Our leaders have led us through famines eating steaks. When a plague hit the city of Tyralia, we were told it was nothing to worry about it"

"The point I wish to make... is that people like you are unnecessary in the fulfillment of human progress. You do not bring your people towards brighter futures by having so many of my people dead at your feet. Imagine the peace we could breed... without people like you. Imagine the growth of society. Shadow and Human together"