going FERAL
Carpenter in her rant to Paige: “the last words [my parents] ever heard were that they were to be devoured by something they did not understand.”
Paige, creating the chant of her god: “I will steal myself away from their intent for me. My blood will not ripen their soil, nor shall my body blossom into their chosen colours.”
“I will be hallowed, but not for them.”
Paige. Paige, creating a god of martyrs and victims. A god of scapegoats... but also, a god of understanding. A god which respects the last wishes of all who call upon it. A god whose purpose, intentionally or unintentionally, responded to the anger Carpenter expressed all those months ago.
And Carpenter, Sister “I would rather die for nothing and with nothing in my heart than die for you, my Trawler Man” Carpenter........... wow.
Not to mention!! The juxtaposition between the Cairn Maiden and the Many Below??????? They’re both there--not only for the followers of the faiths they lead, but for the followers of other faiths when they die.
Except the Cairn Maiden is for deaths that always were going to happen, the deaths that everyone walks towards, the death you’ve been waiting for all your life. The death a person should, and is destined, to have. And the Many Below is for deaths that you struggle against, for deaths in which your fate and faith and purpose in life is ripped out of your hands. The death you weren’t walking towards all your life. When it manifests, the Many Below is violent, cruel, vicious, savage.
IT’S LIKE. IT’S LIKE THE CAIRN MAIDEN BUT ANGRIER if that doesn’t scream Carpenter I don’t know what does.