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Con_Stripes 
"Some people do. In fact many people speak without thinking all the time, to the point where others believe that everyone does." Ethan understood Jake's confusion and had no judgement on it.
"Because I don't like the eyes." He answered simply.
He eyed the arm of the chair and then looked at quite seriously. "I'll never tell you what you're allowed to think, Jake. Your mind is your greatest gift, and like any gift, not everyone is deserving of it."
He beheaded another frog.
"That is what I meant about self-preservation. Its a behaviour. Something a person does to ensure their own survival, usually to avoid pain, and often out of fear, but also its the instinct to live, the innate desire to be without risk of interruption or destruction by others. Sometimes to share your thoughts puts you at risk, as it did today, with your loss of points." Though in many cases the result would be far more serious.
Because he didn't like the eyes.
The eyes.
The chocolate EYES.
Fair enough.
"I just don't see why it was such a huge deal to ask the guy a perfectly valid question. I really don't. I wasn't being rude but everyone just decided to have a go at me."
Jake remained quiet for a little while when Truebridge spoke, snapping another tiny bit off the frog and nibblng at it. What he wanted to tell Truebridge was that he didn't care much for the sound of self preservation. It sounded a little too much like disguising yourself to make other, more powerful people, happy.
Jake knew of survival of the fittest... which made more sense but... yeah...
"I don't care about points," Jake said simply, and eyed the arm of the chair he'd pounded. He just shook his head.
"None of this makes any sense. I mean... how do you live with all these rules and behaviours that you have to know?" Because Truebridge did know them and was telling Jake of them, so... they had to be important, didn't they?
For the first time that night, Jake glanced up at Truebridge and straight at his eyes for a few seconds.