Chapter 2: Time flies
the king, now using his new name, spent the next 15 years with his new family. until every one of them, one by one, died of old age.
"raccoons have a short lifespan..." thought can.
despite can having lived for thousands of years now, observing life as it is, he was still naïve, he did not understand the meaning of death yet. the king wandered the land, favouring his new raccoon form over the pearl like form he took originally.
occasionally changing into other forms like a bird or a snake for better mobility, the king travelled for hundreds of years, observing the world as he knew it.
when he thought he'd seen it all, the king found humans, it found them intriguing, as they were the most intelligent beings he'd seen yet, and yet. they seemed as dumb as rocks. they had the technology to build huge castles, the intelligence to study the skies and stars.
and yet, their medicine was horrible. it was a time that is known to the modern age as the medieval times. the people focused more on curing the diseases than discovering their cause. as the people believed that the cause of them was supernatural, and their methods to cure them were not ideal.
can was able to see the bacteria and viruses with his bare eye, so it knew their methods were misguided, but he decided to ignore it. and instead focused on how the humans were very immersed in religion and battle, especially battle, it craved the chaos and entropy.