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gesturing to the tracks, “this is wrong.”
“Have you noticed your kind seems to apply human thinking to the nonhuman world
around them?” Peter was silent, but he refused to process the being’s words. “What are you?”
“I am a natural being, just like yourself, and I do not subscribe to such ridiculous notions as ‘right and wrong.’ That is not how the world works, Peter, and you of all people should know that. Right and wrong are man-made ideas and to apply them to a world that is decidedly not man-made is a foolish pursuit.”
“Please, I want to go home,” Peter cried, falling to his knees. “Let me and my sister go.” “Not yet, Peter,” the voice said. “Again.”