As Lexi listened to this, she wondered what makes a person irredeemable, their actions unforgiveable. For someone like Aeric, who had been raised in a culture with a set of beliefs that had led to terrible things, who had never been confronted with the truth until recently, could past actions—and inactions—be forgiven? What about the other kids within the Schoolchildren system, Gowerland’s version of the Hitler Youth?
