V18 – Pg16
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Back to the rock quarry –
Jordana and Norn are at loggerheads. One wants to fight their oppressors, the other wants to lay low and ride it out.
Norn appears to be under pressure from his own family to relent, yet he’s resistant to change.
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“I’ve been to war. I’ve had my fill.”
There are two thoughts on war that I view as completely vital to understand 1) it’s amazingly horrible, and 2) it’s not the most horrible thing, just close
People who have been to war, especially when it was not for a good cause, often come to the first position at the expense of the second.
People who have not been to war far too easily put things on the “less horrible than war” list.
Here we have someone who has been to war, who knows it truly is worse than the naive youngster could possibly know. Yet we the readers know that what is planned is indeed amazingly horrible, and that there’s at least a good case that what is coming is worse than war.
Hard place to be. Norn can’t possibly show Jordana how awful war really is (only those who have been truly know, and Norn doesn’t seem equipped to give the next-best-thing kind of explanation), and Jordana is too young and inexperienced to give Norn truly compelling reasons why what is coming is really worse.
Hence the cover of this issue, I expect.
I’m glad you’re getting that, Deoxy.
Part of Norn’s backstory is that he was part of the UK’s armed forces that was stranded in Russia. Only a few managed to make it back home.
The two characters are at an impasse.