[He nods eagerly. And his mouth twists again at the news, something in between amusement and contempt.]
Humans aren't moral anyway. Not even grown-ups. They like to pretend, but they have wars all the time.
[Poor show, the navy officer who found them had said. I'd have expected better from British boys. As though they weren't on the island in the first place because grown-ups got to fight as much as much as they wanted, as though they weren't burning the whole world down. It's stupid, how much they all like to pretend.]
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Humans aren't moral anyway. Not even grown-ups. They like to pretend, but they have wars all the time.
[Poor show, the navy officer who found them had said. I'd have expected better from British boys. As though they weren't on the island in the first place because grown-ups got to fight as much as much as they wanted, as though they weren't burning the whole world down. It's stupid, how much they all like to pretend.]