

In their brutishness, they'd never evolved to use hunshur their communities were so rudimentary that hississins did not exist nor did these creatures seem to see any need for chail, or even chailsinn. They couldn't siuwil, they couldn't mesnishtil, they had no concept of slan. In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. A vodsel might do something which resembled a human action it might make a sound analogous with human distress, or make a gesture analogous with human supplication, and that made the ignorant observer jump to conclusions.

There was always the tendency to anthropomorphize. "The thing about vodsels was, people who knew nothing whatsoever about them were apt to misunderstand them terribly.
