[ there is an optimistic turn. that after the consistent denial of basic rights they should still have the right to a trial by peers. and one to be quashed underneath an unmerciful heel as soon as they can glimpse daylight. ]
It's not a judicial trial.
[ immediately ahead as they exit the wreckage, one of the labyrinth's walls pierces the sky. a monolith, solemn and intimidating, its twin glimpsed as soon as he turns his head. rather than feel any awe at the construction — or fear at the impossibility — bruce looks to the walls in challenge. they'll get through.
first, though. first they take stock of themselves. their numbers. the able-bodied and the injured. the dead. what they can scavenge and what they have on hand. survival won't happen just because he says they will. ]
no subject
It's not a judicial trial.
[ immediately ahead as they exit the wreckage, one of the labyrinth's walls pierces the sky. a monolith, solemn and intimidating, its twin glimpsed as soon as he turns his head. rather than feel any awe at the construction — or fear at the impossibility — bruce looks to the walls in challenge. they'll get through.
first, though. first they take stock of themselves. their numbers. the able-bodied and the injured. the dead. what they can scavenge and what they have on hand. survival won't happen just because he says they will. ]