[That is, if Faramir is honest with himself, a very good question. Has the worst of the transformation not already come to pass? The dead arisen, the world around him come to ruin? Is he not a monster already?]
[He is not, he determines. He is not, for it must not be so, and he holds out the pamphlet at the top of the pile - Change Is Inevitable: Understanding Ryslig - wordlessly to this stranger, as though it must explain everything.]
[When it does not seem to, he sighs, and something in his mien shifts; aggravation giving way to a profound sorrow.]
I will not become a beast. Dead or alive, I refute it utterly.
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[He is not, he determines. He is not, for it must not be so, and he holds out the pamphlet at the top of the pile - Change Is Inevitable: Understanding Ryslig - wordlessly to this stranger, as though it must explain everything.]
[When it does not seem to, he sighs, and something in his mien shifts; aggravation giving way to a profound sorrow.]
I will not become a beast. Dead or alive, I refute it utterly.