I meant "you" in the collective sense of your society, since apparently I'm not part of it.
[Which feels particularly wrong to him right now — he should not merely be responsible for the enforcement of society's rules, but their creation — but intellectually he knows there's no rational reason why he should trust that feeling. It's just his song nagging at him...]
A pity that there's no escaping the pervasiveness of such a pest, even if undersea society has also presumably bred some useful varieties. After all, I've already conceived of one use for it — [the replenishment of oxygen in containers of air he proposed shortly before Kay mentioned the choker, that is] — and I doubt merpeople would differ from humans in preferring to domesticate lesser species.
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[Which feels particularly wrong to him right now — he should not merely be responsible for the enforcement of society's rules, but their creation — but intellectually he knows there's no rational reason why he should trust that feeling. It's just his song nagging at him...]
A pity that there's no escaping the pervasiveness of such a pest, even if undersea society has also presumably bred some useful varieties. After all, I've already conceived of one use for it — [the replenishment of oxygen in containers of air he proposed shortly before Kay mentioned the choker, that is] — and I doubt merpeople would differ from humans in preferring to domesticate lesser species.