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Duane acts like such a cringey dickhole in this scene I can barely show it to you. I think people assumed I meant he does cruel and violent things this chapter, and that's why I was warning that the worst of his behaviour was looming, but it's more like he bullies a bunch of little girls and whines at their keepers, and it's Rector Adelier's lowest point. Bear with us.

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Jeremy Ball

Umm.... did something permanent just happen to Sara's cranium, or is that all in Duane's minds eye?

Duke BG

Yes, I was ready for (more) violence to happen. Glad it didn't

Pavel Grebnev

Bless the Twins, he hadn't kill her... yet

Stephanie Aldrich

I'm completely on board with Duane showing his ass here. The very best characters are the ones with enough depth that they can be embarrassing jerks sometimes without the reader losing investment. I feel like he's enriched as a character by this moment, like how bitter chocolate and coffee flavors work really well in some desserts.

Mark

What I hate most about this scene? Storm or not, the sun is up. This isn't mad zombie Duane. This is Rector Adelier, the man who has steeped so long in hate that he can't even see children in a play without hating them

redink

wow hes really cracking up

Judith Bradford

Duane... just spitting the plain truth about the sacrifices to these girls and assuming they don't know, offering to protect them to get them away, cannot reverse the years of their acceptance of it; they could have left, as Missus Crazybirds did, if they felt their lives worth the consequences that would follow. What's heartbreaking is that they have not been taught they ARE worth more than those twinsflesh cutlets and the bribes to their hometowns, and those who walk into the sacrifice throw away futures they don't know how to assert the real value. Even Siya with her craving for the time to develop as an artist doesn't think she OUGHT to have what she longs for, or that her being deprived of the time to grow and learn is an injustice to sear the skies! Yelling at her, though, can't show her how to stake her own claim to a future, and reject claims that pretend she must give up her whole life or be a bad, bad person