skygiants

Yeah. I think that is a much overlooked part of the saga of Detritus--he didn't just get his dignity back because people handed it to him instead of chaining him to a wall, he earned it back one slow, grinding thought at a time. He slowly and painfully learned to be smart with a brain that could never reach "clever" outside of a blizzard. The whole clever-cunning-smart thing is a recurring motif, but I never really thought of it in that light.