the king, now using his new na, spent the next 15 years with his new family. until every one of them, one by one, died of old age.
"raccoons have a short lifespan..." thought can.
despite can having lived for thousands of years now, observing life as it is, he was still naïve, he did not understand the aning of death yet. the king wandered the land, favouring his new raccoon form over the pearl like form he took originally.
occasionally changing into other forms like a bird or a snake for better mobility, the king travelled for hundreds of years, observing the world as he knew it.
when he thought he'd seen it all, the king found humans, it found them intriguing, as they were the most intelligent beings he'd seen yet, and yet. they seed as dumb as rocks. they had the technology to build huge castles, the intelligence to study the skies and stars.
and yet, their dicine was horrible. it was a ti that is known to the modern age as the dieval tis. the people focused more on curing the diseases than discovering their cause. as the people believed that the cause of them was supernatural, and their thods to cure them were not ideal.
can was able to see the bacteria and viruses with his bare eye, so it knew their thods were misguided, but he decided to ignore it. and instead focused on how the humans were very imrsed in religion and battle, especially battle, it craved the chaos and entropy.
the king took the form of a human, and just as it did with raccoons, it willed itself to know the habits of humans, it found it intriguing that it rely got what people call common sense, humans seed to have habits that vary from person to person, yet, almost none that all humans shared.
having kept the can from Sven. it transford it into whatever headwear it had to wear, so that it would have it at all tis.
the king integrated itself into the human society, it managed to get itself into as many battles as it could, it used whatever tools it was given, as it killed it's first prey, it felt a strange feeling, one it liked.
the king got itself into hundreds of battles, it managed to emulate the aging process of humans, and tried to reset itself into a new shape every ti it reached an old age as a human. the king did not like killing itself, but killing was rely a way to a ans to it. what it craved was not gore, but chaos and entropy.
as he grew tired of battles, he decided to explore other parts of human society. at the ti he served quite a benevolent king. the king offered can a role as a royal guard, as can has proved himself in battle ti and ti again, can usually refused the offer, but as he got bored of battle, he decided to accept the offer and retreat away from battle.
as he was patrolling the castle one day, he saw sothing it never seen before, a book. a lot of books. it was a library, or so his weird senses told him, it always gave him unwanted information, can feared that his senses would tell him the contents of the books if he tried to read them, so he decided to suppress this sense it ca to know as "all knowing".
can stood there, trying to will the senses away. it had co to understand that anything it willed can be brought to life, weather it is changing his appearance, or getting the knowledge it needed. can succeeded, but the weird feeling that can only be compared to silence took over him, fear took over him. but can decided to calm himself down, and tried to pick a book up.
can picked up random book, it was a fantasy book, one where elves, dragons, dwarfs and all kinds of magical beings lived, he fell in love with it, he ended up coming to the library in every chance he found to read.
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