[Because it is. Which is why she'll say with deliberate coolness:]
I was chosen to be eliminated... probably two or three times, growing up. Obviously they were prevented, but two of those times were only because someone spoke up for me.
That's how they maintain peace in the villages. As the children grow up, they observe them and look closely at their skills and behavior. If anyone doesn't meet their standards, they're eliminated.
In my case, I was nearly eliminated as a child because my cantus was late to manifest. The other two times were for behavior, though someone else in charge stepped in and scolded the ones who decided that as being too hasty.
[She sighs. She's not even really eating anymore, either.]
But she was too late to act. By then, one of my friends had already been marked unnecessarily, so he and my best friend decided to leave the villages for good.
[Something that pretty clearly still weighs on her, with the way her eyes narrow, expression melancholy.]
Quick judgments like that have already led to too many peoples' deaths where I'm from when they didn't need to. I don't want us to make a huge mistake by doing the exact same thing here.
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[Because it is. Which is why she'll say with deliberate coolness:]
I was chosen to be eliminated... probably two or three times, growing up. Obviously they were prevented, but two of those times were only because someone spoke up for me.
That's how they maintain peace in the villages. As the children grow up, they observe them and look closely at their skills and behavior. If anyone doesn't meet their standards, they're eliminated.
In my case, I was nearly eliminated as a child because my cantus was late to manifest. The other two times were for behavior, though someone else in charge stepped in and scolded the ones who decided that as being too hasty.
[She sighs. She's not even really eating anymore, either.]
But she was too late to act. By then, one of my friends had already been marked unnecessarily, so he and my best friend decided to leave the villages for good.
[Something that pretty clearly still weighs on her, with the way her eyes narrow, expression melancholy.]
Quick judgments like that have already led to too many peoples' deaths where I'm from when they didn't need to. I don't want us to make a huge mistake by doing the exact same thing here.