She remembers one of her earliest experiences with two-legs. Humans came up the Nun Kiang River from Tsitsihar and killed her sire. Why did they do this? Her mother explained that humans kill for the same reasons that all animals kill—to eat, to dominate, to survive. Killing is part of the way of things, but two-legs make it personal. Sometimes they kill for the fun of it, which is like saying for no reason at all.