alright lovecraft actually started having the narrator be sad about the (possible) extinction of the old ones, how even though they looked terrible and had horrifying to us structures they were not. erm. "savages" (<- still xenophobic when talking about how we were misunderstanding them lmao)
because like, yeah, they just woke up surrounded by weird creatures, possibly attacked by dogs, defended themselves, and then dug graves for their bretheren who didn't thaw. Then continued to study the humans and canines as they had nothing much else to do before (assumedly) succumbing to the elements. scientists to the very last. the narrator is distraught over them now that he realizes this (which again can tie back to racism, "The Other" only matters if they are as smart or smarter than us)
so yeah, i wasnt actually expecting it to go from talking about how grotesque it all was to the narrator saying how hard it was to tell the next part of the story because of how sad he felt for them after he understood more.
the horror is now focusing on the loss rather than the ugliness and weirdness, which is a nice change i was not expecting from what I've heard of him.
unless I'm misunderstanding, which is possible as it's an audiobook and i can zone out, and he is very... verbose.
