Yes. That's right. And I get to hold them because I'm not an ordinary human anymore.

The spirits could be dangerous to humanity. Mostly, though, humans were just afraid of what they didn't understand and didn't respect nature. So the spirits, who protect nature and live in harmony with it, became a thread to humans because humans had become a threat to them. Humans didn't have the same kind of power to fight the spirits that the spirits had to fight them. Humans started gathering together and living on the backs of the Lion Turtles for protection. Over time, those groups of humans forgot that any others existed. Humanity as whole tends to be very self-centered, thinking only of themselves. I hope to change that and to teach the rest of humanity to respect nature and the spirits as humanity reclaims the material world.

[So far it had been a struggle, but he held hope for the future.]