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If you come with us and your story checks out, you’re going to be a bit of a hero.” Eli snorted. “Hardly. Just a kid in the right place who made a good decision, I guess.” Haskell cocked his head. “What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born, young man: they’re made.”
“Why did you let her leave in the first place? She said you were newlyweds. Not even together for a year.” Jorr blinked. “She… she wanted to go. Wanted to see the world. Wanted a better life for us.” “You could have stopped her.” “She wanted to go.” He wondered why she couldn’t see this was the important thing.
Most amazingly, though, there was no longer any revulsion in her expression when she looked at Ori. Suspicion, yes, and fear. But not horror. Nor had she yet addressed him as ‘ratman.’ A strange champion indeed. Have we really reached a point where prejudice is the natural state of things, and tolerance is more alien than hatred?
