New title: Soylent Gray
“Captain Rhyd Wesson, it’s time you learned what retraining is.”
So is the implication here that Wesson is about to be inducted into the mysteries of the Corps, and that by the time he sees Gray off he knows that non-officer corpsmen (along with the rest of humanity) are just livestock? That’s some red pill.
Either way, Wesson is an irredeemable shit. Conflating treason against the Corps with betraying him personally is pathetic, and sending Gray off to get mulched is as cold as it gets.
Gray goes through a lot and learns a lot in this chapter, but you did well to make us feel each blow as it lands. The death of the Corps cuts the deepest. Gray’s body might still be intact, but her spirit has been puréed.
