This Broken Veil (Ran Book 2) by Joshua Guess

Author:Joshua Guess
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2016-12-18T07:00:00+00:00

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Perspective is the greatest advantage and disadvantage of the human condition. Our ability to experience the same events and know the same facts but take different lessons and form utterly divergent opinions creates a vibrant harmony of thought. It gives us multiple alternate views to consider. It also means that all too often, we have a hard time altering our own reasoning to accommodate those views. Like anything else worth doing, it takes time and effort.

I, for example, saw the treatment of the members of the cult I grew up in as abusive and terrible. Some others did as well, though the majority did not. Even years later they made this disagreement clear to me.

I tend to waver based on new information. I didn’t see the soldiers or even the doctors as mustache-twirling villains. Oh, sure, at first I was furious and willing to do anything to keep my freedom. And I sure as hell was not okay with some of the things John was doing. I will absolutely kill if needed and not feel too awful about the necessity afterward, but life was too precious nowadays to waste without good cause.

So when it came down to deciding on a plan, the six of us fell into two camps. Ellis, Samantha, and Davis on one side with me, Julia, and Anthony on the other.

“We can’t risk leaving them alive, Ran,” Samantha said. “You have to know that. They’ll raise the alarm as soon as they’re able.”

Julia shook her head violently, especially for a woman of her age. “Not if we tie them up. I understand that we may have to kill if they give us no other option. I am not okay with us deciding to commit murder in cold blood as a first choice solution.”

Samantha scoffed, staring at Julia in disbelief. “Are you fucking kidding me? You think the others are any better than John? They’re collaborators, Julia. They might not do the horrible things he does, but they let him.”

Julia raised her bandaged arm, careful to show the bloodstain seeping through. “You think I don’t know? They’ve hurt all of us. What I’m asking is for you to stop and look at their position.” Samantha opened her mouth in a snarl, but Julia silenced her with the sort of commanding body language all grandmothers seem able to draw upon at will. “No, I’m serious. These people lived through the same nightmare we did after Zero. They saw the dead walk, saw Reavers kill and maim and eat people alive. They live in the same ruined world we do. They’re just as scared about the future as we are about the present.”

Her eyes swept the room. “And look at what they have here. Safety, food, and a mission. One they think, however right or wrong they might be, will save the world. I don’t ask myself how they could let these things happen to us. I wonder how they could make any other choice. Do you not understand how

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