“What are they, Rysn?” the captain asked. “Truly? They seem like monsters of nightmare and the Void.” “Most people who are different from us are frightening at first,” Rysn said. “But one thing Vstim taught me was to see past my own expectations. In this case, it meant looking past what I assumed made someone a person, and seeing the humanity—and the fear—in what appeared to be a nightmare.”
