[Jonathan hasn't been here long- he hasn't even been here long enough to accumulate 'changes' of sorts, which only makes things worse perhaps.
Yet as the people around him- the monsters around him- began to speak of Lager Woods, and of people coming through from wherever the Fog would drag them from, he could not simply stand idly in Bavan. So he joined with others in one of the vehicles. He helped set up tables, get blankets together, start the search parties when it became apparent that those arriving were arriving scattered, spread far apart and potentially doomed to wander until they perished again.
No one has told him yet, that not everyone who arrives is dead. No one has told him, and so it is what he believes, and perhaps one day he'll look back in horror at how much worse it must have been for those who simply closed their eyes and opened them beneath the earth, but that time is not now.
Instead he can see a child. A child- and he knows children have come here before, he's seen one but-]
Here- [he insists, already reaching for the boy without thinking.] Here, please, let me help you up-
OH BOY, LAGER WOODS,
Yet as the people around him- the monsters around him- began to speak of Lager Woods, and of people coming through from wherever the Fog would drag them from, he could not simply stand idly in Bavan. So he joined with others in one of the vehicles. He helped set up tables, get blankets together, start the search parties when it became apparent that those arriving were arriving scattered, spread far apart and potentially doomed to wander until they perished again.
No one has told him yet, that not everyone who arrives is dead. No one has told him, and so it is what he believes, and perhaps one day he'll look back in horror at how much worse it must have been for those who simply closed their eyes and opened them beneath the earth, but that time is not now.
Instead he can see a child. A child- and he knows children have come here before, he's seen one but-]
Here- [he insists, already reaching for the boy without thinking.] Here, please, let me help you up-
Are you able to properly breathe, boy?