nicely done with probably the most thought given to to beastmen that I have read to not just go the total savage route and could easily be expanded upon for the future, though not sure why the prisoner wouldn’t be more restrained given what they knew of their prisoner even in an arrogant society (as you pointed out in the story about protocols being maintained despite personal feelings)?
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the lore friendly answer as to why she's not more restrained is that she still needs to be able to march up the stairs to her execution; the real one is I hit exactly 1000 words and had zero more room for descriptions. I'm glad you liked my take on Beastmen - something ive learned studying world history is that if you look at a culture and it seems unsophisticated, there's probably something you're missing (the American great plains are entirely terraformed to optimize bison harvesting, and fully 1/3 of the Amazon Rainforest grows on artificial, self replicating soil)