a weird excerpt from Thunderhead
i was reading Thunderhead and it was pages 212-213 where i read this,
“He paused as a memory came to him. "l used to be friends with Scythe Renoir," Faraday admitted, "many years before his bigotry became the cancer you spoke of he loved a Permafrost woman once. You didn't know that, did you? But as a scythe, he couldn't marry. Instead, she married another Permafrost man ... which began Renoir's long path to hatred." He took a moment to look at Rowan. "If you had known that, would you have spared him?" Rowan didn't answer, because he didn't know.”
I’m surprised Rowan “didn’t know” what he would do after that UNSERIOUS question. "Oh, he was so sad because he couldn't marry her cuz of his job so he started targeting her whole community." ???? It does not make sense to me at all.