I like thinking about how Silent Salt views the other beasts a lot, and one particular detail that's really interesting to me is how the way Silent Salt finds out about the other beasts' corruption affects his view of them.
Because he doesn't find out from the beasts themselves, he finds out because Elder Faerie tells him, and it's the way Elder Faerie words it that I think is really important.
He tells Silent Salt that the other emissaries HID from him. This makes it seem like, to Salt, that his inability to contact the others wasn't due to a lack of effort, but because the others didn't want to be found. They didn't want Salt to know they had corrupted because they KNEW he'd try to stop them. They would rather hide from him, leave him feeling lost and alone, than take accountability for their actions. And this revelation comes RIGHT after the cookies of the Great Barren betrayed the knights and then, instead of taking accountability, blamed Silent Salt for it.
And it's even worse because, as we see earlier in the story, before corrupting Salt is very much a believer in atoning for mistakes and moving forward.
If the other emissaries had reached out to him for help at ANY point before, whether it be before or after they corrupted, he knows he almost definitely would've tried to help them. He would've tried to understand, to help them move forward past their mistakes. But no, the beasts didn't do that, they held not even a single shred of doubt, so confident in their destructive ways that they'd rather hide from Salt than accept that they might be on the wrong path.
To Salt, this shows that the others have made their choice, that they don't want to get better, and they don't want his understanding. At this point he's so furious and hurt and tired that he doesn't think any of the beasts deserve to be helped anyways, himself included.
And the most interesting part of all of this is that, since we're only TOLD that the beasts hid from Silent Salt and not SHOWN if that was their true intent, it's completely up to interpretation if the beasts were ACTUALLY trying to hide from him or if this conclusion that he reached was just a fabrication of his mind, spiraling after everything he went through.
Personally I see it as the beasts avoiding Salt because they knew he'd get in the way of their individual plans but likely not to the same extreme that Salt seems to believe
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