Long Tracks was silent.
Kash-First said, “Recall why we came. We can hunt anywhere. Have we learned more of the human state? Can we give Prisst-Captain any hint of what our ancestors faced, to be so battered and humiliated in war after war?”
“Fool's errand. We have had only one human to study. He is far from typical. He kills as easily as we do, and revels in it.”
“Yes, the human is not interesting. But the rest? What of Africa? Do we finally know the horrors this species faced in the ages before it expanded across its world?”
“Ur?”
“And then came back to hunt.”