[ truthfully, honestly, having someone so casually agree with him is a little worrying. if he stopped to interrogate the real consequences of what was being said, he would in fact be terrified—but he’s not going to do that right now, because it feels much better to be smugly satisfied that someone finally gets what he’s saying. ]

Exactly. Humans have caused nothing but trouble. My grandpa is the only person who understands that, but everyone else gets mad at me and him for doing what we have to do.