Zanele's stories drove home the differences between humans and Reapers. This woman lived for more than a hundred years. And she used up a century still waiting for her lover.
During that entire time, they did little and just waited. Whether it was just her or the Elders around her, they had no sense of urgency. Somehow, they reminded me of the elves in anime and manga.
Normally, those races had extremely long lives. And because of such a reality, they lived their days at a relaxed pace. It was often a common trope of them seeing humans as brash, hasty, and overeager little shits. And who could blame them?
If you lived in a place that never changed, you were bound to not even notice the passage of time. The main drivers of that were children and pets. Ten years felt significantly different to them than to adults. Still. While I understood Zanele, I found it lazy as fuck.
