>Your points would be valid... if Nall had killed anyone before. I
>can't remember him doing it, though I'm more than willing to be proven
>wrong about it. I'm given to understand that when you kill a person
>for the first time, you're shaken up by it. You retreat into yourself
>a little to examine who you are in this new, terrifying context. You
>are a killer. Doesn't matter how bad the other person was, at least at
>first. You are a killer. It is a life-changing event, and
>coming to terms with it takes time.

You are entirely correct. As I said, story enhancing but not entertaining.

>If that's "whining like a twelve-year-old girl" to you, then... well,
>it is. I can't make you change your mind. What I can do is say, not
>without justification, that it makes you sound adolescent. It makes
>you sound as if you think killing someone, killing anyone, is
>the easy thing to do. Maybe that's not what you meant, but it's sure
>as buggery what it sounded like to me.

Hell,if I wanted reality would I be reading a space opera? I think not.

'Tis what I deserve for de-lurking.

-Bodhi