A-Ah’m back.
on January 2, 2016 at 12:01 amChapter: And It Will Go Well With Thee
Location: Sal's parents house
I’m trying to remember why I had Martha hit her. I… I guess Sal expressed an ambivalence about her parents at some point, at how she had negative feelings for them, which contrasted with their retroactively-achieved sainthood via martyrdom? I dunno.
Or maybe it’s so you don’t feel so bad in another couple updates.
Loading ...
At the risk of excusing child abuse, the Walters have been under constant duress for 17 years, playing pawn to a shadowy government conflict they only got involved in because someone stole their son and gave them a replacement child.
I prefer “explaining”–yes, it explains why it happened. It doesn’t EXCUSE it.
I was about to post something like this too, but a bit different. See, they know they’re targets for the aliens, that they might be killed unless they can keep moving. At any moment, when Sal’s not under their eye, she could be killed.
Now imagine raising a child for seventeen years with that knowledge, only for her to run off when the people who are protecting you tell you that it’s time to move again. You know you’re at your most vulnerable and here’s your only child (Even adopted, they’re still her parents) running off on her own out of simple teenage rebellion.
So she did the only thing she could think of that she hadn’t tried yet.
I really like what the use of markers here does to the nighttime backdrop.
“Do you have any idea what we’re going through?”
No. No, she doesn’t. No one will tell her why she has to keep moving and leaving friends behind, or who the mysterious yahoo is that keeps ordering them around!
It’s bad enough that they keep such a big secret from her, but using physical pain to make her “listen”, ain’t helping at all Martha.
she wears her sunglasses at night… so she can, so she can… watch out for aliens.
she wears her sunglasses at night… so she can, so she can… smack her kid around.
It’s like if Ross McIntyre had a laser gun, it’d diminish the coolness of laser guns. Martha makes sunglasses at night seem less cool.
Buzz cuts aren’t the only things that are genetic.
I’d say no she doesn’t since you haven’t really told her what’s going on.
The first line and response had me momentarily confused. How dare you come back?
What the hell, Sal’s mom!?