(live:1s)[Pandas...]
(live:6s)[Beautiful creatures that bring joy and wholesome memories to the minds of many...]
(live:14s)[In the eyes of humans they are a species that need to be cared for and fed...]
(live:22s)[But when human eyes are no longer on them it is a different [[story|Intro Part 2]]...](live:1s)[In this world Pandas are just like humans…]
(live:4s)[They communicate with each other.]
(live:6s)[They have jobs.]
(live:8s)[They live together in villages.]
(live:10s)[Most importantly, they abide by regulations and norms just like any other [[civilization|Intro Part 3]].]
(live:1s)[However…]
(live:4s)[This world is far from perfect…]
(live:9s)[Those that are born into the world with abnormalities are cast away from the general population....]
(live:14s)[There are those that are destined to be oppressors in society and then there are those that are destined to exist alone in the [[outer wilds|Selection Process]]...]
Choose your panda persona.
[[Shizuru|First Route Shizuru]]
[[Mei|Second Route Mei]] (text-style:"bold","fade-in-out")[WAKE UP]
[You wake up short of breath...]
[Your heart feels as though its about to burst.]
[The hardness of the cavern's rocky textures is gnawing at your back.]
(text-style:"rumble")[Your paws can't stop shaking for some reason.]
(text-style:"rumble")[You're sweating profusely, just what exactly did you dream of?]
(live:5s)[It's hard to remember exactly what happened...]
(live:5s)[You just recall images of your parents...]
(live:8s)[They were yelling...]
(live:8s)[You also recall images of guards chasing after you....but that has never happened to you before....what is going on?!?]
(live:12s)[[[Take a deep breath...You collect yourself it was just a bad dream.|Shizuru Path 1]]]
(live:12s)[[[Whatever that dream was about is freaking you out. You go outside to walk in order to calm yourself down.|Shizuru Path 2]]](text-style:"fade-in-out")[Wake up!]
(color:yellow)[Mei's Mother:
"Wake up Mei! You're going to be late for your first day if you keep sleeping."]
You respond with an eager yawn waking up to the sunlight embracing you in a blanket of warmth and the smell of fresh bamboo.
Today is the day!
Today you'll finally be able to learn about and do the duties of your father, a village elder.
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"Mei come on hurry up and eat. Today we'll be starting with a meeting with the village elders."]
You leave your house which is located in the center of the village and walk down a pathway with your father to the council's next meeting.
You've never helped with your father's responsiblities before, you would always help with your mother's so you are not sure exactly what to expect.
The council's building seems to be the same as a normal house in the village, but it's surrounded by guards to ensure the protection of the council while they meet.
[[You choose to enter First ahead of your Father|Mei Path 1]]
or
[[You choose to enter Second behind your Father|Mei Path 2]] You live in a place called the Outer Wilds, it's a cold and wet area that is vastly covered by bamboo forests and mountains.
It's the place where those with abnormalties are exiled to.
You were born with an abnormality...
You have small horns on the top of your head.
Despite your horns being on the smaller scale, you were exiled nonetheless.
You want to remember what was happening in that dream...
You sit down and think back on the past...
[[Go back to the past?|Shizuru Backstory 1]]
As you pass the clearing between the bamboo you begin to hear voices.
(color:yellow)[Unknown Panda:
"Come on Reiji we're out here to harvest bamboo to take back to the village! We can't go back to find someone to repair this if we haven't harvested enough bamboo to take back with us."]
(color:orange)[Reiji:
"Well we can't just wait until after we harvest, we'll both be too exhausted to run back to the village! What do you suggest we do?"]
(color:yellow)[Unknown Panda:
"Well I think we should complete the harvest, then play a game of ba-mb-oo to see who has to run back to get help."]
(color:orange)[Reiji:
"I guess that's not entirely unreasonable see as-"]
Reiji stops talking as he sees that you are standing nearby behind the foliage.
[[[Conceal your horns and help them?|Encounter 1]] or [[Don't conceal your horns and help them?|Encounter 2]]]
[You live in a place called the Outer Wilds, it's a cold and wet area that is vastly covered by bamboo forests and mountains.]
[It's the place where those with abnormalties are exiled to.]
[You were born with an abnormality...]
[You have small horns on the top of your head.]
[This curse is the burden you bear, the only thing that kept you from living a normal life, the sole reason for your exile.]
[You begin to walk along the path to the nearby river trying to calm yourself down from the dream you had earlier.]
(live:5s)[[[You choose to keep walking towards the river as you're deep in thought.|Shizuru Part 2A]]]
(live:5s)[[[You choose to break off the path to investigate an unfamiliar sound to your left past the bamboo foliage and rocks.|Shizuru Part 2B]]](color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"We are here today to discuss the exile of an abnormal who was recently charged with enciting a panic in the town center and it's parents who were haboring it in their household all this time."]
The elders look at each other in astonishment...normals helping abnormals was practically unheard of in this village of blatant discrimination.
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"Hmm. I see. This is a serious matter... I suggest we proceed to imprison it's parents for treason and exile the abnormal to the Outer Wilds."]
You watch out of curiosity. You aren't sure exactly what exile and imprisonment had in store for the culprits. You were led to believe that all abnormals are savages...however you just don't like the sound of this.
You speak out to your father and the elders asking if you could have a trial to dicsuss the treatment of the abnormal and the parents.
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"But there is no need for a trial. They are abnormals, accursed creatures that don't belong in this world there is no reason to give them a fair trial. //IT// certainly doesn't deserve it neither do those abnormal-sympathizing parents of //IT//."]
Mei's Father adjusts his conviction, seeing this as an opportunity.
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"I'll allow it. After all she will be taking my place as chief elder some day and what would be better experience than having her make an important decision on her first abnormal [[case|Duty Result 1]]."]As you walk into the building you and your father are greeted by the other elders of the village.
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"Good you are here. It is time to discuss the exile of an abnormal."]
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"Must we do this now? I have brought my child with me to show her the duties of the elders. She is not ready for the talk of exile."]
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"This is a matter of utmost importance and what better experience than allowing the child to provide input as the future head chief in the matter of exiles. It would be better to show her sooner rather than later."]
With a grunt your father agrees to allow you to witness an exile trial and guides you to a new room in which there was a table with six seats and an oddly placed seventh seat which you assumed was yours.
[[Take your seat.|Mei Duty 2]]As you walk into the building you and your father are greeted by the other elders of the village.
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"Good you are here. It is time to discuss the exile of an abnormal."]
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"Must we do this now? I have brought my child with me to show her the duties of the elders. She is not ready for the talk of exile."]
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"This is a matter of utmost importance and what better experience than allowing the child to provide input as the future head chief in the matter of exiles. It would be better to show her sooner rather than later."]
With a grunt your father agrees to allow you to witness an exile trial and guides you to a new room in which there was a table with six seats and an oddly placed seventh seat which you assumed was yours.
[[Next|Mei Duty 1]]You've finally managed to calm down, you get close to the river and then bend down to take a massive drink of water. You didn't seem to realize how parched you really were until now.
As you begin to look back up from the river you see a reflection of yourself and the accursed horns that have condemned you to this life.
(link-reveal: "..." )[
(color:red)[Something within you snapped...Your body begins to tremble...]
(color:red)[Tears are beginning to flood your eyes...]
(color:red)[An immense amount of pressure is pounding the inside your head and you start swinging your paws into the water, one right after the other...]
(color:red)[You are relentlessly slashing at any remnants of your reflection as if expecting it to wash away your sudden pain and fury](link-reveal: "..." )[
(text-style:"rumble")[(live:1s)[(color:red)[WHY?!?]]]
[(live:3s)[You continue to swing...]]
(text-style:"rumble")[(live:6s)[(color:red)[WHY ME?!?!]]]
[(live:9s)[You continue to swing...]]
[(live:11s)[(color:red)[WHY WAS I PUNISHED FOR MY VERY (text-style:"rumble")[EXISTENCE] WHY IS IT A CRIME TO BE (text-style:"rumble")[ABNORMAL]?!?!]]]
[(live:17s)[You continue to swing until you pass out from [[exhaustion|Transition to Backstory]]]]
]]You contemplate choosing a sentence of exile for the abnormal and imprisonment for it's normal parents... There is no punishment in exile, nor is there a way to reflect on one's crimes but seperating them will be punishment enough...
Although... what exactly were the crimes of the abnormal? Enciting a panic just sounds like the crowd in the village ran away in fear, because they were scared of an abnormal roaming around inside the village.
You ask the parents why the abnormal was kept hidden from the village, and why they let it loose in the village.
The parents responded by informing you that the abnormal is their child...they did not want to lose it to exile just because it was a little different than the others. So they decided out of love for their child to create an isolated environment for the abnormal.
But curiosity got the better of it and when they weren't looking it left into the world that it knew pretty much nothing about.
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"Fools. You can't trust abnormals nor can you love them. They are] (text-style:"rumble")[(color:red)[MONSTERS!"]]
At that point something glimmered in the abnormal's eyes...
(color:red)[Abnormal:
"(text-style:"rumble")[I AM NOT A MONSTER!] I am normal just like any of you...the only thing that I have that's different is the burden of judgement...because of this CURSE on my head. I understand if you exile me. But all I ask if that you spare these two...they played no role in aiding me. (text-style:"shudder")[They lied about everything...]"]
You look into the abnormal's eyes...
You decide to pardon the parents...
[[Are you sure about exiling the abnormal?(Yes)|Confirmation 2]]
[[No, you won't do it.(No)|Confirmation 3]]You open your eyes to see that you are in a dimly lit room...
The comfortable surface that you're laying on is a bed.
A sudden wave of light fills the room, someone opened a hatch on the other side of the room and they enter carrying bamboo and a container of water.
(color:yellow)[Shizuru's Mother:
"Morning Shizuru! I brought you some bamboo to eat. Your father isn't here today, he's attending a council meeting so it'll just be me here today."]
That's right...you were told that you were born a crime and your family has kept you a secret from the village.
All you've known in your life is this cold, barren, and dimly lit room. You've never been allowed to go outside and you've never communicated with anyone outside your family.
When you asked your parents why you couldn't leave they simply said that it was not safe to and refused to tell you anything other than it's because of the horns on your head.
In this seemingly endless confinement you learn things about the outside world from your parents, but struggle to grasp the concepts behind the unknowns of the world. What role do the horns on your head play in not being able to go into the outside world? How come you're labeled a crime even though you have never done anything wrong?
[[Next|Shizuru Backstory 2]]You burst out of the room, and take off in a full sprint in any direction...
The light from the sun was almost blinding and every sound around you were both mystifying and terrifying.
What was the plan now?
You know absolutely nothing about this world aside from what your parents told you.
You continue running...
You run past other pandas who either run away in horror or others that try to throw things at you in order to stop you.
They begin to shout things like "It's an (text-style:"rumble")[ABNORMAL] someone get rid of it!" or "Run away from the (text-style:"rumble")[FILTHY MONSTER]!!!"
Who are they calling a monster?
Surely they wouldn't be talking about you...
As you continue running, you see an open gateway to the left...
[[Run towards the open gateway. |Exile 1 Shizuru]]Day after day, you experienced the same thing.
You were stuck in a loop of sleeping, waking, eating, repeating.
Enveloped in the darkness, hidden away, isolated from anything and everything you began to feel like nothing.
Day after day this routine became "normal" to you...
That is until one day...
Your mother left the hatch door open when she got called away while dropping off your food
Unsure of what to do you moved closer to the hatch...Closer to the warmth of the light that vibrantly burst into the barren room, making everything visible.
The light touched your skin...it feelt different...comfortable even...
You heard unfamiliar voices right outside of the opening...
This was your opportunity...to choose...
Risk disobeying your mother and father to leave this confinement...
or
Remain shackled to the darkness for the rest of your life...
[[Run out of the room?|Shizuru Backstory 3]]
or
[[Wait for the right time?|Backstory Loop 1]]
You try to wait for the voices to fade but they never do...
You decide to give it a go and begin to step out of the hatch, but as soon as you do someone grabs you and starts shoving you down the hatch in an aggressive manner...
You fall back from the sudden excess force and the figure closes the hatch behind them...the darkness once again shrouds over you...
(color:red)[Shizuru's Father:
"(text-style:"rumble")[SHIZURU!] What are you (text-style:"rumble")[THINKING?!?!] You (text-style:"rumble")[CANNOT] leave this room at (text-style:"rumble")[ANY COST!!!]"]
Your body trembled in fear...you've never heard your father this angry before...
As a safeguard Shizuru's father ensured that the hatch door remained closed at all times when food was brought down to you...
You've been enveloped by the darkness and isolation and eventually you were discovered and condemned for your abnormality and so were your parents for harboring you.
[[Try again?|Shizuru Backstory 1]]
You hear footsteps coming closer...
It smells of bamboo shavings and it feels like you're laying on something...different...comfortable even...
There is only one thing you know for sure this is not your home...
[[Open your eyes...?|Shizuru Backstory 1]]As you get through the gateway, you are surrounded by guards...
They stop you, bind your hands and legs, and escort you to a holding cell.
Before you know it you are exiled to the Outer Wilds and your parents are imprisoned for the crime of keeping your existence a secret.
During your first week in the Outer Wilds, you wandered around aimlessly searching for something...anything to call your home.
It began to rain midway through the week, forcing you to run around to find some sort of shelter from the rain.
In the midst of the second week you had finally found a cave to convert into a shelter of some sort from the rain. But it has been a tough, painful road. You have blisters on your paws, you're freezing cold from the rain and cold air of the mountain, and you have not had a decent night of sleep in many days.
One day as you are began to venture around and harvest nearby bamboo shoots for food, you hear a strange noise coming from behind a group of rocks and bamboo foliage, although it was strange it sounded oddly satisfying and in a way homey.
Out of curiosity you decided to go over and investigate, to see what these strange sounds were.
When you walk around to the other side of rocks, you saw another panda blowing into a thin stick of bamboo, which you would assume created the captivating sounds that you heard.
He noticed you standing nearby, and beckoned you to come over and sit with him on the rocks as he created his strange sounds...
[[Next|Exile 2 Shizuru]]The strange individual's name was Roie, he was a normal panda, who had given up everything he had in the village to be exiled with his son who was an abnormal.
These days, Roie travels around the Outer Wilds searching for other abnormal souls to aid.
The strange stick he was blowing into was called a flute, and Roie taught you how to create the same beautiful sounds for the lonely nights up in the mountains of the Outer Wilds.
After another 4 weeks, Roie had helped you set up a new life in the Outer Wilds, one in which you could do anything you wanted, he helped you convert your cavern shelter into a functional home, and even gave you advice in regards to the exile.
(color:yellow)[Roie:
"I know that you are worried about your parents. But do not fret, they will eventually be released from their imprisonmentt because they are normals. I was in the same predicament when my son was discovered and discriminated against. They called him a monster, but I loved my boy more than anything in the world he was the kindest panda that I have ever come to know."]
Roie said his son was...you realize that the reason Roie probably took up wandering the Outer Wilds is probably because he has lost his son...
You ask Roie why he has bothered to help you and why he treats abnormals with such kindness while others treat them like monsters.
(color:yellow)[Roie:
The answer to that question is simple. At the base of it all my dear friend, we are all pandas. We communicate with each other, we love one another, we eat together, so what difference does having a different look make? I treat everyone with kindness, not out of obligation but because you should treat everyone the way you would want to be treated."]
[[Next|Ending 1 (Shizuru)]](text-style:"bold","italic","double-underline","superscript","blink")[(color:green)[//''GOOD ENDING ''//]]
A few days have passed since Roie has left and gone back to wandering, his words still resonate with you. Those words have filled a gaping void of darkness that had long since overwhelmed your heart.
You have come to learn that society is not always right.
Behind the false justifications of the old ideologies lie hatred of those that are different.
This abnormality is not something that is a mark of shame or a curse, you realize that it is something that you have come to accept as a part of yourself.
[[Play Again?|Starting Scene (Intro)]](color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"We are here today to discuss the exile of an abnormal who was recently charged with enciting a panic in the town center and it's parents who were haboring it in their household all this time."]
The elders look at each other in astonishment...normals helping abnormals was practically unheard of in this village of blatant discrimination.
(color:orange)[Mei's Father:
"Hmm. I see. This is a serious matter... I suggest we proceed to imprison it's parents for treason and exile the abnormal to the Outer Wilds to rot."]
You watch out of curiosity. You aren't sure exactly what exile and imprisonment had in store for the culprits. But you were led to believe that all abnormals are savages, so you ultimately agree with your father's decision.
[[What is next?|Duty Result 2]]You take a deep breath...this duty is not what you expected it to be...
Will you rule along side the council and convict this "criminal" or will you follow your intuition and find another path?
[[Are you sure about Imprisonment?(Yes)|Ending 1]]
[[No, you will find another path.(No)|Confirmation 3]](text-style:"bold","italic","double-underline","superscript","blink")[(color:red)[//''BAD ENDING ''//]]
As time went on you picked up on more of the duties of the village elders, and you have become a cornerstone in maintaining the order of the old ways.
As of now exiling abnormals comes to you as second nature...
You have failed to break the cycle of discrimination and change society for the better. Endless amounts of abnormals and normals have suffered at the cost of your ideologies and beliefs.
Not only have families been broken up, they were pitted against each other in regards to their differences, whether they were abnormal or normal they lost sight on that they were family.
[[Return and Try Again?|Second Route Mei]] (text-style:"bold","italic","double-underline","superscript","blink")[(color:red)[//''BAD ENDING ''//]]
As time went on you picked up on more of the duties of the village elders, and you have become a cornerstone in maintaining the order of the old ways.
As of now exiling abnormals comes to you as second nature...
You have failed to break the cycle of discrimination and change society for the better. Endless amounts of abnormals and normals have suffered at the cost of your ideologies and beliefs.
Not only have families been broken up, they were pitted against each other in regards to their differences, whether they were abnormal or normal they lost sight on that they were family.
[[Play Again?|Starting Scene (Intro)]]You aren't sure what exactly you were hoping for by stopping the conviction of the abnormal's exile...
The doors to the room are opened followed by three individuals and several guards urging them to move forward into the room.
The three individuals are pushed into the room, their hands and legs bound so that they can't do anything to defy their sentencing.
The one in the middle catches your eyes, it has small horns coming out of the top of it's head... that must be the abnormal...
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"Come forth abnormal. Accept your fate."]
The abnormal began moving forward, but something was off... it was limping and it seemed as though it was in pain from the walking forward. Why is it hurt?
Aren't abnormals supposed to be savage freaks that only exist to disrupt the order of the village? You were taught that they were impure, not belonging to this world, beneath the normals, and utterly selfish...
However...after finally seeing one...they look the same as any other panda. Judging seeing it's pain and eyes tearing up you begin to question whether exile or imprisonment is really the route to take.
The council is awaiting your decision...
(This passage will ask if the player will execute or imprison the abnormal that was brought to them. As they make the decision the abnormal is restrained in a position where the player can see the painful expression and fear on the abnormal's face.)
[[Exile?|Exile 1]] or [[Imprisonment?|Imprisonment 1]](text-style:"bold","italic","double-underline","superscript","blink")[(color:red)[//''BAD ENDING ''//]]
You chose to continue the cycle of endless discrimination. This seemingly endless cycle has not been broken...
As time went on you picked up on more of the duties of the village elders, and you have become a cornerstone in maintaining the order of the old ways.
As of now exiling abnormals comes to you as second nature...
You have failed to break the cycle of discrimination and change society for the better. Endless amounts of abnormals and normals have suffered at the cost of your ideologies and beliefs.
Not only have families been broken up, they were pitted against each other in regards to their differences, whether they were abnormal or normal they lost sight on that they were family.
[[Play Again?|Starting Scene (Intro)]]
You take a deep breath...this duty is not what you expected it to be...
Will you rule along side the council and convict this "criminal" or will you follow your intuition and find another path?
[[Are you sure about exiling the abnormal?(Yes)|Ending 2]]
[[No, you will find another path.(No)|Confirmation 3]]You contemplate choosing a sentence of imprisonment for both the abnormal and it's normal parents... There is no punishment in exile, nor is there a way to reflect on one's crimes...
Although... what exactly were the crimes of the abnormal? Enciting a panic just sounds like the crowd in the village ran away in fear, because they were scared of an abnormal roaming around inside the village.
You ask the parents why the abnormal was kept hidden from the village, and why they let it loose in the village.
The parents responded by informing you that the abnormal is their child...they did not want to lose it to exile just because it was a little different than the others. So they decided out of love for their child to create an isolated environment for the abnormal.
But curiosity got the better of it and when they weren't looking it left into the world that it knew pretty much nothing about.
(color:yellow)[Elder Reia:
"Fools. You can't trust abnormals nor can you love them. They are] (text-style:"rumble")[(color:red)[MONSTERS!"]]
At that point something glimmered in the abnormal's eyes...
(color:red)[Abnormal:
"(text-style:"rumble")[I AM NOT A MONSTER!] I am normal just like any of you...the only thing that I have that's different is the burden of judgement...because of this CURSE on my head. I understand if you exile me. But all I ask if that you spare these two...they played no role in aiding me. (text-style:"shudder")[They lied about everything...]"]
[[Are you sure about Imprisonment?(Yes)|Confirmation 1]]
[[No, you won't do it. Think of something else.(No)|Confirmation 3]]You look into the eyes of the abnormal...and your decision is made...
[[Are you absolutely certain you want to take this alternate path?(Yes)|Ending 3]]
[[No, you won't do it.(No)|Duty Result 1]](text-style:"bold","italic","double-underline","superscript","blink")[(color:green)[//''GOOD ENDING ''//]]
You ask the abnormal what it's name is...and it...no (text-style:"italic")[SHE] responds with:
"Shizuru"
You then inform the council that your decision is to pardon the abnormal and her parents.
(text-style:"sway")[About a month later:]
You are meeting with Shizuru to discuss plans of reforming the old principles, so that everyone breaks down the labels of abnormal and normal to see that at the base of it all they're all pandas.
Shizuru, is no longer an "abnormal" because of her abnormality she is a panda just like everyone else and she is your best friend.
You chose to break the cycle of boundless discrimination. This may not change the course of the cycle entirely, but it is a crucical step towards realizing the error of society's ways...
[[Play Again?|Starting Scene (Intro)]](color:orange)[Reiji:
"Who's there? Can you help us? Our cart broke down and we won't be able to move our harvest back to the village."]
You conceal your horns with a couple of leaves from a nearby bamboo plant and decide to go and offer your help to these individuals...after all this is your first interaction with others in about 2 years.
Reiji and the Unknown Panda see you approach and let out sighs of relief...
(color:orange)[Reiji:
"Phew. Thankfully you're a normal, I was afraid of running into abnormals since we're out this far near the Outer Wilds for harvesting. Can you help us?"]
You respond with a nod and begin to help them with repairs to their cart.
After Several Hours the Unknown Panda tries to converse with you:
(color:yellow)[Noen:
"Hey! Sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier, my name is Noen. So what's your name?"]
You don't respond.
(color:yellow)[Noen:
"Ah so you aren't much of a talker huh? No worries. We appreciate your help and just as a thanks feel free to take some of the bamboo we've harvested. We got a little extra for the road home."]
Reiji approaches...
(color:orange)[Reiji:
"Thanks again for the help. Just a word of advice while you're out here, watch out for those abnormals.
I hear they are savages, they do nothing but take from normals like us and only care for themselves.
Heck if it were up to me I would eliminate them from this world. They don't belong here and we don't need the extra trouble."]
After listening to more insults and demeaning comments about abnormals, the two pandas took off back toward the village. You end up continuing back toward the [[river.|Shizuru Part 2A]](color:orange)[Reiji:
"Who's there? Can you help us? Our cart broke down and we won't be able to move our harvest back to the village."]
You decide to go and offer your help to these individuals...after all this is your first interaction with others in about 2 years.
As you approach Reiji and the Unknown Panda notice your abnormality and immediately start shouting...
(text-style:"rumble")[(color:red)[Reiji:
"BACK OFF ABNORMAL. YOU CAN'T HAVE OUR HARVEST YOU MONSTER! GET OUT OF HERE!"]]
You're startled by the sudden outburst. Realizing that they could see your abnormality you begin to panick. Monster? What monster was he talking about?
The Unknown Panda ran off somewhere else leaving Reiji behind...
(text-style:"rumble")[(color:red)[Reiji:
"YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD!!! YOU AND YOUR ABNORMALITY ARE A MISAKE! STAY AWAY!"]]
He continues to shout and tries to throw things at you...but you don't hear any more of it.
You begin to back away...not out of fear...but out of astonishment of how easily this person flipped a switch as soon as they saw you.
How is it possible to have so much hatred for a person that you have never known? You aren't a monster. You haven't done anything wrong!
You run back through the clearing and towards the river in hopes of being far enough away from the normals who were desperately trying to get rid of [[you.|Shizuru Part 2A]]