Order Only: The verdict
Jun. 29th, 2011 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_arthurCloseted with Norma Brownmiller this morning.
The decision has been reached. Mothers of children under the age of five are spared, but otherwise, one out of ten of the remaining muggle adults from the Vale of Glamorgan enclave are ordered to be killed. Then, aside for mothers with very young children, all of their families will be split apart, willy nilly, so that no more than five from the Vale will be together in any one camp. Brownmiller's supervisor, Cresus Deverill, in a particularly cruel twist, has ordered her to be the one to choose who will live and who will die. I suppose because he despises her for being 'soft toward the animals.'
I went through the list with her. It was absolutely ghastly. This one has five children. Do we let him live, even though he will never see them again? This one is in his sixties. Perhaps we should choose him, rather than someone younger? This one was trained in a despised muggle industry, elektronics. She is diabetic. Should we eliminate her? Perhaps this one, because he only has one hand, the other having been lost in a farming accident?
She was sobbing so hard after choosing ten that I finally took pity on her.
God help me. I chose the remaining five.
The decision has been reached. Mothers of children under the age of five are spared, but otherwise, one out of ten of the remaining muggle adults from the Vale of Glamorgan enclave are ordered to be killed. Then, aside for mothers with very young children, all of their families will be split apart, willy nilly, so that no more than five from the Vale will be together in any one camp. Brownmiller's supervisor, Cresus Deverill, in a particularly cruel twist, has ordered her to be the one to choose who will live and who will die. I suppose because he despises her for being 'soft toward the animals.'
I went through the list with her. It was absolutely ghastly. This one has five children. Do we let him live, even though he will never see them again? This one is in his sixties. Perhaps we should choose him, rather than someone younger? This one was trained in a despised muggle industry, elektronics. She is diabetic. Should we eliminate her? Perhaps this one, because he only has one hand, the other having been lost in a farming accident?
She was sobbing so hard after choosing ten that I finally took pity on her.
God help me. I chose the remaining five.