and I've only got my brittle bones to break the fall
He considers what Edy says for a moment, idly turning some charred part over in his guilty hands. He's not seeing it, not thinking about it, taps it once before placing it into the cart. "I stand corrected," he says softly. Perhaps he doesn't consider himself a Grounder (obviously), but that's neither here nor there. She's right in all the ways that matter.That's why we shouldn't have done this he wants to say, standing among the lost lives, while Edy lectures the kids. They seem more interested in just ridiculing and taunting her than being reasoned with—they're just restless kids looking for someone to blame, too broken and traumatized to know how to be grateful. "Hasn't Fred? Not had?" Someone pipes up, quickly taken up by cries of "Yeah, Fred!" and "Fred's family's fine!". (Is Fred even real? Good fucking question. Probably not.) One of them even picks up a piece of debris and chucks it towards the Ascended, and a few more follow suit.
He doesn't think she deserves it. None of them do, honestly; like Isla said, they did what they were told. It's not a fight Aamu wants to take. He wants to flee, take the cart and go collect the dead elsewhere. Like a coward.
Edy's already told them to fuck off, what more can he do? Ask them to go home, and invite a tirade about how their farmsteads are burned down? "Leave her alone," he ends up saying, hoping a second voice will make the kids see reason and get lost (or at least change target to Aamu, who feels depressed enough to not give a shit). This earns him a few bits and pieces thrown in his direction; a piece of cooked Ascended bounces off his forehead and a rock strikes his shoulder. Aamu looks very disapproving.
Edy's not very successful in dissuading the kids, who are now even throwing rocks. Boo. :( It doesn't hit anyone this round though.
Aamu convinces them to leave Edy alone, so they throw at him instead and he gets hit a couple of times.
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