Just hanging out...Literally

"In this place you'd expect some horrible story about how some monster attacked me. Like yours." He said not looking at her, he hated talking about because most of the people at this camp just laughed at it. "I was only eight or nine years old. I grew up in some backwater town so small it never made it on a map. The place was surrounded by woods that the townsfolk considered haunted." He explained as he closed his eyes focusing his power to sense the comforted feelings of the sleeping animals near by. "The woods were a place of comfort for me. This made the townspeople suspicious since the town was religious. I was called a great many foul name, but the point is one day I was out walking when I happened across a coyote. I've bumped up against predators in woods before, so I thought I could handle it." He went on remembering the thin near dead animal was. "The coyote was starving, it was obvious to anyone or thing. I stupidly thought that the hunger would slow it down, so even if it attacked, which it was dead set on, I could dodge and get away. I couldn't. It lunged I ducked, and the next thing I knew the coyote had it jaws on the back of my next." He said wincing slightly as his body remembered the pain his head wanted to forget. "I somehow managed to dislodge the creature and then use a stick to kill it. Then, because no one went into the forest, I crawled back, bleeding and delirious with pain and blood loss. When I was discharged from the hospital, the director of the orphanage beat me for breaking the rules and costing the orphanage money." He finished, preparing for what ever response she had.

"That's why I hate humans." Sal said stretching slightly. "The coyote had a reason to attack me. I was just stupid in how I handled it. The Director though had no reason other than what ever sick pleasure he got out of beating a clearly injured kid, and everyone else just watching." Sal took a deep breath, her reaction wasn't typical, but it wasn't surprising. The typical response was 'dude, that sucks.' No one ever cared. Not even when he was bleeding and near death it was caring it was a sense of duty that the hospital took him. Humans were the worst, most dangerous and cruel creatures on the face of the earth.

"I find it a travesty, how much modern demigods are resembling the humans that are slowly choking our planet to death." Sal said staring at the starry sky. He hated humans partly because of how they treat him, but he's noticed over the years that humans are hopeless creature that are closer to a virus than a mammal. "Have you ever felt like it'd not worth helping them?" he asked letting all anger drain out of him. It was one reason he liked the forest, it seemed to drain all negative emotion and leave him at peace.