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- Last time, Faraday and co. travelled a bit, Faraday distrusted the Sentinels… but then she trusted them again, so that is all fine.

Hello, conflict! Goodbye, conflict! It's not even like it was legitimately resolved, either! Who needs conflict when you have mind control, and can make your characters just forget all about the problem?

- I think that Douglass wants to frame this as a “hard decision” that needs to be made. The trouble, of course, is that this is not the only way, so it comes off as insincere.

What's more, it's clear that neither Jackass or Yr have any problems with doing this. It's not a hard decision if you easily make up your mind to do it and don't put up any kind of resistance.

- Someone then says that it is precisely because it is their lifetimes, and she notices Jack looking at her. She wonders if he has “invaded her head as well”. Well, it certainly looks like it!

STOP THAT. You have no right to read her mind! It would be one thing if he couldn't help it; like, when he comes within a certain proximity of someone, their thoughts creep into his mind whether he wants them to or not, but I get the feeling that he's actively snooping, and has no problems with doing so.

- Yr gets up, dresses, and puts her hair in a “knot behind her neck”

Yr is a nudist, isn't she? That's the only explanation I can come up with for why she's naked all the time.

- Faraday walks up to Yr and asks what they have done to Timozel.

Too late now! You could have asked this before they did all this. For all you know, they just scrambled his brain and turned him into a vegetable for the rest of his life!

- Taking a quick look, I see that that is not exactly usual, so I think saying his heart beat every half minute (and him having a heart-rate of 48), is quite more reasonable.

Congratulations, morons, you just gave him hypoxia. Now he really will be a vegetable.

- The Lake knows they are coming, and that “Timozel, the pigs and the mule” need the same protection as they do.

...I know what Douglass was getting at here, saying that the ones left behind would be safe, but I don't like that Timozel is lumped together with the animals. It just feels like they're insulting him. I dunno, maybe I'm reading too much into it.

- Today they will see a part of Tencendor that lives much like it did before “the Seneschal started to murder this beautiful land”.

Dramatic, much? Sure, there might not be any big forests, but the land is hardly dead.

- Yr then reads Faraday’s mind again.

FUCKING STOP THAT, OH MY GOD! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

- Cut to Jack, who watches them. He is “immensely relieved that they [have] been able to leave Timozel behind”.

...why do I get the feeling that Jackass is secretly plotting to throw Timozel off the side of the mountain or something?

- Faraday lets go and “laugh[s] delightedly, clapping her hands like a small child”. The Sentinels “look[] wryly” at each other, and think they are caught. Faraday laughs they were “[n]ot polite”.

Yyyyyep. Much like Edward Cullen, I get the feeling that these people believe they have every right to know what other people are thinking. Who cares about privacy?

- Can you never answer a straight question, Yr? Also, if you are so bothered about Timozel holding Faraday’s “training” up, I think you would do well to tell her as much as you can!

Nope. It's much more important to be cryptic, even if it infuriates the readers (which it is. A lot).

- Yr and Jack just laugh at her suggestion. She literally does not know! Why are you laughing at her suggestion? If you do not want her to say such things, you should have taught her, you idiots! I quite hate them. Jack just says that it is “hardly that” and says it is time they get moving again.

Have I mentioned how much I hate these two? I kind of want a freak blizzard to blow up and eat them. Or a Yeti. A Yeti would be fun.

- They go onto a steep path “hemmed in by the tall tree ferns”.

Trees =/= ferns, Douglass. There's a tree with fern-like leaves, but I don't think that's what's being talked about here. Just because it's big doesn't mean it's a tree.

- I further just like that she is not willing to trust the Sentinels on this yet.

Me, too. But then, whenever anyone opposes these assholes, that's a good time in my book, so I might be a little prejudiced.