"It's kinda complicated. Yeah, we did fight when we could, but the Thing wasn't really one for direct confrontation. In my case, it grabbed me in the form of a cow. I didn't have much of a chance to fight back. It could talk and think like us, so...I guess I wonder why it didn't try a different approach. My team thought it was just evil."

Kinner eats fish, so he understands what she's getting at well enough. "Yeah, well, I'm still allowed to be a little bitter about the result, right? Critters I eat are allowed to still be mad at me."