If any old-timer sarnothi heard this, they’d be like “You’re all too soft these days. In my time when your baby bit you, you just dealt with it. You didn’t even feel it after the first few times!”
If any old-timer sarnothi heard this, they’d be like “You’re all too soft these days. In my time when your baby bit you, you just dealt with it. You didn’t even feel it after the first few times!”
That’s how you build up a tolerance! Or nerve damage.
Wait, that’s a good question – are Sarnothi affected by their own venom?
Evidently, yes! Or rather, they’re affected by other sarnothi’s venom.
Sarnothi are resilient against the venom of other sarnothi, but not truly immune.
However, baby’s venom isn’t very strong so after a few bites their parents can usually build up a resilience.
Now, you can blame cultural differences, but its really NOT cool to hand someone something without telling them BEFOREHAND that they might need to inject an antidote because they are going to get poisoned by carrying it.
Not everyone is good with needles, for one thing, plus who knows what kind of medical iteractions venom and antivenom could have with various medications/health conditions.
I suspect he’s trying to keep Todd preoccupied because he doesn’t want him hearning whatever is coming next, but I could be wrong. (And that makes it worse, not better, if right.)
we occasionally use our own babies as bioweapons here
Todd has tattoos. It is unlikely that, as many as he has, he is *that* bad with needles. I’d be more worried about him not knowing how to properly self-inject.
… This brings up a great point…. Do we need to start now with setting up batches of Selkie antivenom? I mean having a decent stockpile might be something to consider for when she starts dating.
It could also be the assumption or forgetfulness due to Todd being the father of Selkie. Assumption that he might already know about this type of thing due to being her father, even if he didn’t have her at that age. Forgetfulness due to teaching about echo things, so the brain might just default to assuming that everyone is Sarnothi until after he had picked up the child, even though the brain should have known better. I don’t know when in this part of the conversation Todd picked up Tai Li, but it could also be that it is hard to remember to say or do other things while maintaining echo stuff. It might be that Pohl was so focused on the girls and echo things that he didn’t even realize that Todd had picked up Tai Li until it was too late.
Nom nom nom, bite the pink tasty thing.
If sarnothi babies are anything like human babys, they explore any object by putting it in their mouth. It seems to be a combination of possible teething, “is it food?” and the fact that their mouths are more sensitive to explore textures, etc at that age than their fingers and hands (don’t have the motion control to stroke or squeeze that well yet).