Hope so too.
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SELKIE: Ha ha ha, okays, you got me. Good joke. ...Rights?
TE FAHN: I-I don'ts think so. I heard it from m-mys neighbor. Before we left h-home.
TE FAHN: His dad worked w-with Echoes. He said they were being ordered to obey the Council. If they said no, they went away.
TE FAHN: I-I know it isn't like that here, but I-I-I d-don't want you to... gets hurt.
SELKIE: "Went away" like.... to the surface, maybe?
TE FAHN: I hopes so.
TE FAHN: I-I don'ts think so. I heard it from m-mys neighbor. Before we left h-home.
TE FAHN: His dad worked w-with Echoes. He said they were being ordered to obey the Council. If they said no, they went away.
TE FAHN: I-I know it isn't like that here, but I-I-I d-don't want you to... gets hurt.
SELKIE: "Went away" like.... to the surface, maybe?
TE FAHN: I hopes so.
Can't think of a relevant commentary today so have some nonverbal utterances. Sneep. Snop. Bwong!
Well.
Go bust them out, then.
The 8 year olds are probably not up to exhuming underwater graves this week.
If Echoes are such a big resource, I can’t see them being murdered. In any case, if Scar and Dr. Pohl are so powerful, maybe extermination would be the only option.
If they are not loyal, the Echos might be too big a liability to have as lose cannons. That’s my POV.
Hey Dave, just a quick note that recently clicking on the secret director’s commentary link has been sending me to a spam page. Happens on different browsers, and only for this site. Clicking a second or third time after closing that page usually works. Anyway just an FYI there might be something going on.
Just did it to me again when I clicked on the COMMENTS link.
Oddly I’ve yet to see any of this behavior. What browser are you folks using? (I use Firefox, it’s my dedicated comics browser 😆)
Got to love her childish optimism in the face of the cruelty of the real world. :-/
Well, at least that clarifies which “city” she was talking about in the last page. Sarnoth.
It was a fair question, considering they now live in a human city, and a low in Sarnoth, as well as the punishment for breaking it (“disappearing”) isn’t relevant here. Sarnoth isn’t going to be enforcing any of their edicts in… whatever human city this is. Not without declaring open war.
You know that. I know that. Dave knows that. Te Fahn, being a child refugee from a totalitarian city-state, however, may not know that. Human children are not particularly good at understanding that different nations have different customs and laws, and the laws they are taught are, to them, laws of the universe, not laws of the nation in which they reside. I do not image Sarnothi children are much different, given how human-like they seem to be in most other respects. It may very well be that Te Fahn has not internalised the fact that those laws don’t apply on the surface. Based on her remark, I daresay it’s very much a situation of it being head knowledge that this place is different, but not heart knowledge, and so she genuinely fears whatever the Sar’teri answer to tsecret police is coming out of the shadows to “disappear” one of her closest friends, even if she knows in her head that that’s not likely to happen.
Saudi Arabia had a journalist murdered in cold blood in Turkey without declaring war. Why should Sarnoth be any different?
Mostly that a SA assassin can walk down a Turkish street without standing out or being noticed, and knows how to navigate human civilization well enough to find who they’re looking for in the first place.
…but point taken.
They went to live on a farm upstate, where they can run and play with the other Echoes.