Well, if you check my sources at the bottom of the post, there is evidence for cephalopods changing their RNA in a way that's not found in any other animal. That's where the idea came from :)
Baby cephi just wants a better world for its people. How many people walked by it that day, maybe even kicked it into a corner because they were disgusted?
Baby cephi just wants a better world.
Aha, poetic license huh . In essence you are preaching "no empathy". So Nora and the 7 others answer for the sins of a society, that saw cephis as just some other animal to be hunted and eaten, i would understand.
But if baby cephi is this good at surviving, such that its innocence is traded for a chance at the better world. I wonder what the better world has in store for her con.
As I mentioned in a different comment, good and evil are a question of perspective. In this story, there are no winners.