"He spend many years trying to live with groundlings-- people like you, like humans, but more varied, some of them are blue or green or gray, not just brown and pink like humans. They could tell he wan't like them, though, no matter how good he got at lying, and kept being chased away or having to leave when he was found out," Stone continues. "He didn't even know what he was, except that he had two forms, and he wasn't like them. He found one village, finally, when he was a little older than you, that he thought he could stay in. But they found him out, too, and betrayed him-- they caught him and poisoned him and tied him out in the plains, where the predators could catch him. One of them almost did."