And the Forest doesn't think/act/be/value the same way people do. That's one of those things about fairies, spirits, gods, whatever that it's easy to *say* but hard to keep in mind.
It's like... even human people don't always act the way one oneself would act. It's surprising and unsettling, but there it is. We share a whole lot of ways of looking at things but SURE ARE DIFFERENT in other ways. And animals share a whole lot with people buuuuut SURE ARE DIFFERENT--MORE DIFFERENT in other ways. And spirits and things, even more so.
--This may seem like one huge non sequitur, but it came into my head because I was thinking how it's part of our sense of faithfulness to Wilson that we want him back safely. But that's not--putting aside spirits and things, even--how things work, necessarily.
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It's like... even human people don't always act the way one oneself would act. It's surprising and unsettling, but there it is. We share a whole lot of ways of looking at things but SURE ARE DIFFERENT in other ways. And animals share a whole lot with people buuuuut SURE ARE DIFFERENT--MORE DIFFERENT in other ways. And spirits and things, even more so.
--This may seem like one huge non sequitur, but it came into my head because I was thinking how it's part of our sense of faithfulness to Wilson that we want him back safely. But that's not--putting aside spirits and things, even--how things work, necessarily.