You could still try. A cornered rat has no chance of wining, but it'll still jump and bite at you.
[ Those idioms find their roots in true advice. They can't tear a human apart, not the same way that larger animals can, but they can sink their teeth in through skin and flesh and infect a person with any number of diseases that will end their life. Humans can do it to each other, too. They can bite and rend and scratch when they're backed into a corner.
Those that are ensnared aren't so lucky. However large, however fit, however gifted, once captured they're just a corpse waiting to be laid in its coffin. ]
Aren't we less than rats if we stay?
[ Not even rats, but even insects. He shifts uncomfortably, a creeping anxiety prickling at him despite the smile that seems to be painted onto his face. It mingles with restlessness, as though it only occurred to him after speaking the words aloud. But he doesn't think Ava, his doctor, would stay - she's wouldn't be captured but instead slip in to lift the cage door and watch the creature inside scurry out, and it's that alone which allows him to commit to the idea of leaving. ]
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[ Those idioms find their roots in true advice. They can't tear a human apart, not the same way that larger animals can, but they can sink their teeth in through skin and flesh and infect a person with any number of diseases that will end their life. Humans can do it to each other, too. They can bite and rend and scratch when they're backed into a corner.
Those that are ensnared aren't so lucky. However large, however fit, however gifted, once captured they're just a corpse waiting to be laid in its coffin. ]
Aren't we less than rats if we stay?
[ Not even rats, but even insects. He shifts uncomfortably, a creeping anxiety prickling at him despite the smile that seems to be painted onto his face. It mingles with restlessness, as though it only occurred to him after speaking the words aloud. But he doesn't think Ava, his doctor, would stay - she's wouldn't be captured but instead slip in to lift the cage door and watch the creature inside scurry out, and it's that alone which allows him to commit to the idea of leaving. ]