Theme · Book 6, The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Staying human

'If we get to the point where we don't help each other anymore, that's when we stop being human.' The book's argument with itself: Carl covers the Meadow Lark signs so no one farms the elderly for experience, is told by twenty percent of a focus group that he is carrying dead weight, and cannot decide whether keeping them alive was a kindness.

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Arc

'That's not who we are, Donut' (ch. 16); 'We have to draw the line somewhere' over a dead crawler's card (ch. 47); 'We were losing more of ourselves every day' (ch. 60).