Teres

I remember you mentioning in an earlier chapter that children are sexualized in this series, which is what immediately raised the red flags. How I wish I had been wrong...

By now I'm absolutely positive that Douglass had some serious skeletons in her closet.

I absolutely despise the "I can't tell you" plotline.

If you keep refusing to answer someone's questions, and especially if it's with some bullshit excuse like "I just can't" or "it's a secret", that person is going to become resentful very quickly. And subsequently, they will stop trusting you. You cannot demand absolute trust from someone while also deliberately keeping them in the dark.

Oh. Oh no. I didn't even think about it like that, but I bet you're right!

It's even worse when the woman "scratches with her fingernails" instead.

And that's how you deal with a situation like that. You can't change the past, but you can influence the future to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. I can understand being bitter and resentful of a race that did your own tremendous harm, but taking it out on one person just because she's a convenient punching bag for you is just...

...racist. She hasn't been a jerk to him or shown any racism of her own, so him making assumptions and ragging on her like this is completely unfair and counter-productive.

We need to see the actual oppression happening today, but other than Raum and Shra being captured and mistreated later in this book it's just not there. Everyone just magically gets over their racism because Axis tells them to and that's the end of that.

...what a strange trait. And still very creepy.

And really stupid that it's ONLY the men.