He takes in this information with, at first, no more than a thoughtful sound.
"I wonder why there's so few..." he starts, then interjects, "--Not that I'm asking, specifically. It just seems strange to me."
Why are there so few men compared to women? Is that just the birth ratio? Do Warlocks have some sort of weakness that Witches don't that causes fewer of them to live? He only really has humans to think of, but they're about even... His species, if they really are a different species, were about even as well, even though he doesn't think they quite fit into the evolutionary way of things. Monsters... Well, he's never asked.
"It at least makes sense why you'd find that odd, though. It's... actually kind of the opposite where I'm from. For a long time, after people went underground, there weren't very men or women, so the ruling powers took it about as far as they could and pushed the idea of... promiscuity, for the sake of maintaining some kind of population." That's no excuse for his own behavior, but... "It's still a pretty big influence, even though it's not so widespread anymore."
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"I wonder why there's so few..." he starts, then interjects, "--Not that I'm asking, specifically. It just seems strange to me."
Why are there so few men compared to women? Is that just the birth ratio? Do Warlocks have some sort of weakness that Witches don't that causes fewer of them to live? He only really has humans to think of, but they're about even... His species, if they really are a different species, were about even as well, even though he doesn't think they quite fit into the evolutionary way of things. Monsters... Well, he's never asked.
"It at least makes sense why you'd find that odd, though. It's... actually kind of the opposite where I'm from. For a long time, after people went underground, there weren't very men or women, so the ruling powers took it about as far as they could and pushed the idea of... promiscuity, for the sake of maintaining some kind of population." That's no excuse for his own behavior, but... "It's still a pretty big influence, even though it's not so widespread anymore."