"Perhaps not. It's hard to judge what might have once been when things have been a certain way for some time."

It's not a long time for Padparadscha, since it seems to have only been about five hundred years if the reports of those here previously are any sign, but for living things that's more than long enough to ingrain a habit, it seems.

"Do you think we would be feared? We're little more than lost, unwilling travellers finding our way in an unfamiliar world."