Your poetic mind comes through strongly in your prose, which I always enjoy.

This is one of my earliest pieces in English, so it's interesting that it came through. Though that originally read "intermingled," as I did do a small editing pass. It was interesting to see how my English did in fact improve in the years since I first wrote that story :)

And yeah, the juxtaposition combine with the title to say, "This is us, this is humanity." And it's not about anyone being a monster, just being in pain, just being human.