"Instincts that help you know when you're going too far or instincts and impulses you've learned to control?" He asks. After all, fiends might be clever but it was an animal kind of cunning and they hardly knew the notion of restraint. "The latter is impressive, I think, and says a lot about you. Hell, seen plenty of human men who can't reign in their desires to do all kinds of heinous shit." Killed a few of those too, in his time.

He doesn't really think worse of Bull: the man is doing what he needs to survive and Eskel can go back and confirm with his previous "prey" that they were alright, providing he really felt like doing that level of due diligence, but maybe not. Maybe he'd just take Bull at his word, which while slightly evasive, seemed sincere in what he was willing to or trying to say.