[Logically - Moriarty, should know her character well enough to determine the answer to that, the mask-like face suddenly became one of concern and fear without any hint of transition before just as suddenly returning to placid serenity - only the other half of the Beast would have notice this]

If humans are capable of making the wisest choice at all times, WE would not be needed. Why are you trying to deny what they had sought for since they reached for the fruit so long ago?

With the root - they will not be threatened by beings like the {}{}{}{}{}{}{} -

[The alien god, as the concepts have been devoured, if anyone else tried to listen in, all they would hear is a gnawing silence, and a sense of being drawn into oblivion if they tried to decipher what the silence was covering]

This is by our calculations the best means of protecting the curious, eager children called humans from those that will rob them of that.

[Though the phrase would seem to be one full of affection, the Beast's voice was still as chilled and still as a frozen lake]