These two still don't realize they're conflating the dragons of one world with the monsters of another, but what Irahl says slots so neatly into Vincent's understanding of the Haunting that it's hard to doubt it. He's been there.
He's always had a small, nagging fear that monsters are hooked into the bones of the world for a reason, and that destroying them all will leave those bones too brittle to hold anything up - but his brother has told him that this is just the Haunting trying to get their hooks in him, too; that their whispers cannot be trusted, no matter what. He imagines Irahl would say the same, so he doesn't mention it. They're both probably right.
"Can't argue with that," he admits, and it's true enough. Most of him agrees monsters are bad and that less of them means a much safer city, "But what does that mean for people like you and me?"
Which is... Probably extremely blunt, given how potentially heavy a topic it is, but it's not something he's one to shy away from. If monsters need to be destroyed to keep people safe, what happens to those of them who are themselves at least partially monsters?
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He's always had a small, nagging fear that monsters are hooked into the bones of the world for a reason, and that destroying them all will leave those bones too brittle to hold anything up - but his brother has told him that this is just the Haunting trying to get their hooks in him, too; that their whispers cannot be trusted, no matter what. He imagines Irahl would say the same, so he doesn't mention it. They're both probably right.
"Can't argue with that," he admits, and it's true enough. Most of him agrees monsters are bad and that less of them means a much safer city, "But what does that mean for people like you and me?"
Which is... Probably extremely blunt, given how potentially heavy a topic it is, but it's not something he's one to shy away from. If monsters need to be destroyed to keep people safe, what happens to those of them who are themselves at least partially monsters?