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the edge of the woods in the direction of a stone hut. We followed as BB pushed at me. (That human, he killed that other being.) I plied. (Yep.) (Why did he do that? Not much survival going on there!) (Not for the deer, that’s the other one, the animal … uh, the other being. The human needs the body of the deer.) BB blanked. (What would he want with that? He’s already got a body.) I smoothed, here it comes. (To survive. He needs it to eat.) (Eat! What’s eat?) (He puts it in his own physical body to give it energy to survive, so he can stay alive. That’s what we ident eating.) (The other being, the uh, deer, it didn’t survive, stay alive … uh, physically. I got a good percept of the energy leaving it.) One easy lesson! (Well, humans are what we ident as the dominant species, uh, beings alive here. They are at the top of what we call the food chain. Food is what we call the stuff we eat. Little species get eaten by bigger species which in turn get eaten by bigger species until you get up to human. He isn’t the biggest but he’s the smartest, that’s why he’s the dominant species. He eats about everything that grows.) BB was turned inward and flickering as we followed the man to the stone hut. The man shifted the deer carcass off his shoulder and hung it head down on a rack outside the hide-draped doorway. Then he went inside. BB flickered. (Isn’t he going to, uh, eat it?) (He will later. Has to cure it a little first, let the blood drain out of it. Want to go inside?) He didn’t really have a choice, as I led him through the stone wall. Inside, there was a small fire burning in the center of an earthen floor. Around the fire were three persons, a woman and two small children. The woman was stirring a pot hung over the fire, the two children watching hungrily. The man sat down and joined them, took off his heavy coat, and accepted the bowl the woman handed him. He started to eat, using his fingers to pull pieces of food from the bowl and sipping from its rim. BB pushed at me urgently.