Sex: MaleThe questions the children asked were so simple, and yet each time they brought to Gent's eyes a new perspective. To look back and realize that all the knowledge one had in their head was learned, that at one point he too hadn't known something as simple as what lay beneath fur and skin. The king pulled the crushed creature to him, and oh so delicately began to dissect the carcass. This would become one of Draven's more important lessons, and so the behemoth was certain to be thorough and clear as he spoke.
Working his way from the top layer down deeper into the mouse's body, he described to Draven the anatomy of the animal in terms he could understand. Each question that was asked Gent took time to answer, never once offering the child a shrug or "I don't know." It didn't matter if it was a question he could not answer, the man being a master of making sure others trusted that he knew what he was talking about at all times. Even if he did not have a definitive conclusion to Draven's wandering thought, he was able to offer something to satiate the boy, and then the lesson would continue.
He described to him the mouse's flesh, which was the meat that they ate and that would sustain them with energy. He spoke of the bones, the organs, the nervous system. All things that they had inside of them, too. Drawing connections, illustrating a deeper world, the conversation went on for quite some time until there was nothing but a smear of bones left to the mouse and the father and son moved on to lighter things.
Working his way from the top layer down deeper into the mouse's body, he described to Draven the anatomy of the animal in terms he could understand. Each question that was asked Gent took time to answer, never once offering the child a shrug or "I don't know." It didn't matter if it was a question he could not answer, the man being a master of making sure others trusted that he knew what he was talking about at all times. Even if he did not have a definitive conclusion to Draven's wandering thought, he was able to offer something to satiate the boy, and then the lesson would continue.
He described to him the mouse's flesh, which was the meat that they ate and that would sustain them with energy. He spoke of the bones, the organs, the nervous system. All things that they had inside of them, too. Drawing connections, illustrating a deeper world, the conversation went on for quite some time until there was nothing but a smear of bones left to the mouse and the father and son moved on to lighter things.