"Prey-minded, like our prequisite urges to turn away help since the other person can only understand one's pain to the limitations of their own mind," And so he rambled, humming along like he was cracking away at the idea of genetics and the species' very nature playing a big part in how trauma is allowed to fester within an individual with rarely any other space to connect with others. He flicked the card over before a stray tentacle caught the card.

At Ichinose's question, he actually chuckled.

"Perhaps-! Maybe it's got a bit of a romantic angle there too- since a shadow is at the end, a soul opening up to you. You manifest that higher entity by channelling the inner self it's grown familiar with, and then it gets possessive..."