[Balin, for his part, is oblivious to how the youkai of Gensokyo view humans; his tone of voice definitely conveys that it's a new subject for him.]

Yeah, I guess that's true. They only just recently gave me back my PT gear—[—Indicating the clothes he's wearing right now (http://www.adultimum.net/studio/tabularasa/balin-recruitgear.png), sans the big handgun and its thigh holster—]—but anyway. Sentient beings eatin' sentient beings is, well ... I don't wanna see people gettin' eaten—that don't deserve it, at least. Still, even'a Bane didn't do that to us.

[His gives Meiling a lop-sided, if morbid, grin.]

'Course, in Bootcamp they made a point of makin' us "taste as badly as possible." So that's probably why.