gkmoberg1 wrote:Oh, I had not thought they would feed on Svend. Rather that if Svend - or anyone for that matter - got too close, that things could end badly.
You are right, they would rather flee than fight. Yet it is the inadvertent event of stumbling upon them that could be very dangerous.
I have an annoying tendency to correct people, I shouldn't do that. You are absolutely right, to corner them would indeed be very dangerous.
gkmoberg1 wrote:I liked how well Svend was able to follow them without their noticing. Sometimes we write FF material imagining them able to hear every pin drop. Here, they are strolling along unawares. That seemed rather likely.
Their minds, I think, would work the normal, human way. People don't see what they don't expect, unless the stimulus goes over a certain level. On top of that, they'd be children, with a child's single-mindedness. So even if their ears were capable of hearing Svend's footsteps, their brains would filter this weak signal out and it wouldn't enter their minds.