It's true we don't yet understand much of what the selection process entailed besides the children being orphans. Presumably ones of high intellect, all things considered. I suppose only time will tell if we come to know more for certain.
[It's a bit of an uncomfortable thing. One of his first Echoes had been about how he'd been valued there. But had he only been valued because of how well he'd performed in the training?
[His hand stops short of one of the fallen pastries, just for a few seconds, when Cesar's name is mentioned. It's for multiple reasons, of course. There is the whole issue of how things had gone between him and Lazarus, but some little part of Nathan still inwardly recoils because of what the man's doppelganger had done to him. Unfair of him. He knows that, but the instinct is still there.]
We should certainly do something to learn more about it . . . [He has absolutely no idea what to say on the whole Cesar matter, so his own voice trails off awkwardly after his agreement that the slime should be tested.]
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[It's a bit of an uncomfortable thing. One of his first Echoes had been about how he'd been valued there. But had he only been valued because of how well he'd performed in the training?
[His hand stops short of one of the fallen pastries, just for a few seconds, when Cesar's name is mentioned. It's for multiple reasons, of course. There is the whole issue of how things had gone between him and Lazarus, but some little part of Nathan still inwardly recoils because of what the man's doppelganger had done to him. Unfair of him. He knows that, but the instinct is still there.]
We should certainly do something to learn more about it . . . [He has absolutely no idea what to say on the whole Cesar matter, so his own voice trails off awkwardly after his agreement that the slime should be tested.]