This one’s also a bit more rambly than I’m fond of…
I don’t like to generalize. It’s too easy to generalize—to say, I helped a lot of people—but then it stops being meaningful.
You help one person, concrete and specific, and that’s great… You help a lot of people, —well, it’s a lot, just one lot, no matter how many are in it; and it’s hard to be excited about an abstract category. Humans and demihumans alike have trouble with scale.
So I can’t talk to you about a lot of people. Even ‘one person’ is a bit abstract. I’ll talk to you about Jevin.
When we’d first met, it’d already been a horrible day for me…