Why they did what they did? He guessed motives were important. Maybe even more so than knowing how. Because it was obvious that the islands were powerful, understanding them might come better from motives.

He blinked at the Story Tellers words. He had bent the islands? They had been the ones with power, somehow forcing the islands to take on forms from their memory. That was strange, worrying.

"Perhaps..." He was quiet a moment, deep in thought. It had come from inside them and the islands were more... passive. They had the power to shape themselves but no motivation to, until people arrived.

"What about... the parts that looked like a volcano. Was that the islands themselves? Fighting back against us forcing our will onto them?" He should pause, that's how conversations are meant to work. But his head is full of questions and so he speaks again forgetting to wait.

"Something happened... it made Ren small and it made me... violent. Did that come from inside us as well?"

An awful thought, but from his conversation with Ren... she was afraid and wished to hide. Maybe inside her was a desire to be smaller and inside him...

He stared at his bandaged hands.