Kinner's pretty sure this stranger is worshipping the Thing. Or something like that. He's very confused, to be honest. The Thing isn't a god, or whatever Micolash thought it was. It was a creature. Incredibly dangerous and very powerful, but a mortal creature like any other, able to be hurt and killed. It wasn't even that good a picture of it, if he'd been asked. But Micolash seems utterly taken with it, which is either creepy, flattering, or both.
Kinner's kind of unsettled, to be honest. Even with the Anti-Violence Field in place, he almost starts to worry that the stranger would summon the Thing itself here and the alien would devour them both. He stays, but the urge to run is getting stronger and stronger. Kinner's curiosity is clashing with his survival instinct.
What is Ebrietas? Is it a creature this stranger thinks is relatd to the Thing, or his world's Thing-equivalent, like the pink Thing in Palmer's and the blue Thing in Kinner's own? How many Things are there in the universe, assimilating and spreading?
Unfortunately for Kinner, he doesn't know the smallest bit of Latin, so what's being said confuses him more than anything else. All he knows is that Micolash is really, really taken with the Thing for some reason. He doesn't really think too hard about why.
Even Blair hadn't acted like this. He'd wanted to study the Thing and then wanted to destroy it on seeing how dangerous it was, at any cost. But he could understand - if the Thing hadn't been so evil, or so hungry, Kinner (maybe, just maybe) wouldn't have minded getting a closer look himself.
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Kinner's pretty sure this stranger is worshipping the Thing. Or something like that. He's very confused, to be honest. The Thing isn't a god, or whatever Micolash thought it was. It was a creature. Incredibly dangerous and very powerful, but a mortal creature like any other, able to be hurt and killed. It wasn't even that good a picture of it, if he'd been asked. But Micolash seems utterly taken with it, which is either creepy, flattering, or both.
Kinner's kind of unsettled, to be honest. Even with the Anti-Violence Field in place, he almost starts to worry that the stranger would summon the Thing itself here and the alien would devour them both. He stays, but the urge to run is getting stronger and stronger. Kinner's curiosity is clashing with his survival instinct.
What is Ebrietas? Is it a creature this stranger thinks is relatd to the Thing, or his world's Thing-equivalent, like the pink Thing in Palmer's and the blue Thing in Kinner's own? How many Things are there in the universe, assimilating and spreading?
Unfortunately for Kinner, he doesn't know the smallest bit of Latin, so what's being said confuses him more than anything else. All he knows is that Micolash is really, really taken with the Thing for some reason. He doesn't really think too hard about why.
Even Blair hadn't acted like this. He'd wanted to study the Thing and then wanted to destroy it on seeing how dangerous it was, at any cost. But he could understand - if the Thing hadn't been so evil, or so hungry, Kinner (maybe, just maybe) wouldn't have minded getting a closer look himself.
"I'm guessing you like the picture?"