Human pinpricks

Always, always, always a test.

A test of patience and tolerance for people.

Once you've already established this calloused shell of nonchalance, an idle humanoid pinprick will stop at nothing to carve you out and expose your vulnerability. For an inexplicable reason. Or maybe the obvious reason of wanting to put you down...or put itself up. I don't know, it's a mysterious thing. "Schadenfreude" will always be a curious phenomenon to me.