Sublime

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal’s throat.

Une envie terrible d’en découdre avec le monde le grisa comme si ces premières heures passées sur l’île l’éveillaient. De tout son cœur, il lui fallait devenir le plus fort, le plus doué, faire régner sa loi bien qu’il n’eût aucun code à présenter. « La liberté ou la mort », pensa-t-il confusément, sans même vraiment réaliser ce que cela

rapacious

provisional,

The crows brought him silver buttons and paper clips, and coins which he dug holes in and strung onto a shoelace and wore round his neck. Some of the seniors at school jeered at him for the necklace, but it didn’t stop him wearing it. It was a way of saying his allegiance was to wild and living things.

No one has to teach the average, healthy, five-year-old boy how to be Alpha – he gets it on his own. In various contexts that ‘lil’ Alpha’ wants to explore his surroundings, take risks, see what works and see what doesn’t, even when the consequences may be endangering himself or destroying the thing he took apart to see how it worked.