Aye, I got to keep it. In the early days, I couldn’t control it much, but I had to learn. Didn’t want to kill a man if I had to strike him.
[What he doesn’t know yet, not really: his strength is now sixfold, and he can make a fire in his hand and throw it some distance. Nothing has happened to make these abilities apparent, even to him, but he knows now that there were gods other than the blue one. He doesn’t like to think of his life in the Volary — how he was not the man he would want to be. The Jon in the Volary could also move things with his mind as easily as with his hand. The Jon outside of it thinks that men should not mistake themselves for gods.
Meanwhile, Sam understanding the comparison to medieval Europe is telling enough, in its way. It gives some idea of what his world is like.]
These people, they want what everyone else does. Some kind of safety, food on the table, for their children to have the chance to grow up. We’re taking their food, but we can give — try to give — them more safety. Try to hunt, too. There has to be something more here to eat.
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Aye, I got to keep it. In the early days, I couldn’t control it much, but I had to learn. Didn’t want to kill a man if I had to strike him.
[What he doesn’t know yet, not really: his strength is now sixfold, and he can make a fire in his hand and throw it some distance. Nothing has happened to make these abilities apparent, even to him, but he knows now that there were gods other than the blue one. He doesn’t like to think of his life in the Volary — how he was not the man he would want to be. The Jon in the Volary could also move things with his mind as easily as with his hand. The Jon outside of it thinks that men should not mistake themselves for gods.
Meanwhile, Sam understanding the comparison to medieval Europe is telling enough, in its way. It gives some idea of what his world is like.]
These people, they want what everyone else does. Some kind of safety, food on the table, for their children to have the chance to grow up. We’re taking their food, but we can give — try to give — them more safety. Try to hunt, too. There has to be something more here to eat.