Hut 2

Brand calms himself, realizing he hurt someone he loved as a son or a brother. He puts his hand out and touches Waterstrider's knee. "Maybe I don't understand. What does it mean to you, that you're a savage?" To Brand, a savage was someone who kept people in cages, who sold them like cattle. Not someone who held a frightened child through the bars of her cage while she cried into his fur.