Okay, to be fair, as someone who was part siren, Theo had been raised hearing tales of nature as the source of life, wonder, and joy.
But admittedly, while his grandmother would often say things like, "Nature was here before us, and we remain within its care," or other such phrases meant to impress upon him the importance of respecting the environment, what Theo could not help but focus on was a far more unsettling thought.
They all existed only by nature's permission.
With the kind of upbringing most people had, it was really unfortunate, but nature had come to be known as something rather frightening. Beautiful, yes, but also merciless.
In fact, his family had nearly been claimed by the very nature they had long tried to worship. As a child, Theo had smiled and thought of those stories as tall tales, but since meeting Luca and the others, he had come to realize that his grandmother had not been kidding at all.
If anything, she had been understating things.
