This week I'm posting another extract from Sorrel in Silver. Two thousand years ago, the elves almost destroyed Sorrel's world in a genocidal war with the serpent-folk. Now Sorrel and Wrack have met with a small group of surviving elves...
'Most people think of us as monsters, evil horrors from
the distant past. When we've revealed our existence in the past we've
been met with vilification and violence.'
'Not surprising' Wrack growled. 'You virtually destroyed
the world.'
Daziel bridled at his words, but Malena raised a hand
warningly. 'Wrack's right, Daziel' she said softly. 'We did. It was a
last-ditch attempt to strike back at the lloruk – a final act of
vengeance from a race about to vanish into extinction.' She looked at
each of us in turn. 'If you knew that every last one of you was about
to die, murdered by an evil foe, would you not do whatever you could
to bring that foe down?'
I shivered as her words painted pictures in my thoughts.
Men, women and children dying in agony, the marks of disease across
their bodies. What would I have done had I known that fate was upon
me? If I had had a doomsday weapon, would I have used it to hammer
the genocidal monsters responsible for this crime?
Moral questions - not something Sorrel finds easy...
As always, comments appreciated!
Good question.
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