On the plane, Araari brings up being incompetently threatened. “Two men stopped me yesterday. From Captain Walker. They wanted me to tell you that continuing on this path is dangerous. —They meant because of them, because they will hurt you if you continue, but I suspect they are not the most dangerous thing we will encounter if we continue.”
Okay she can do that his entire thought process is mostly interrobangs at the moment.
"That's fine," he says automatically. "That's -- a lot more than I knew before. Thank you."
"And I got that you're-- intelligent, you hate authority-- you're in love with someone you can't have, have you noticed that your entire brain is wrapped around how much you love them-- you like words. People hurt you as a kid. You have had a very very bad last six months.
But all of that is probably less interesting than you not being human."
He has in fact noticed that his entire brain is wrapped up in how much he loves Gale. It would be somewhat difficult not to. Then again he has managed to not notice not being a human being, so. "Not wrong," he says, a little shakily. "Thank you again."
On the way home Inaaya decides to have an argument about POLITICS.
Nazis: bad. Inaaya is a pacifist but she's not sure if they're going to stop with anything short of war.
Stalin: also bad.
Very unfair how Stalin is giving socialists everywhere a bad name????
Has he read Emma Goldman's essay on the subject? They suppress ALL POLITICAL DISSENT and it is VERY UPSETTING.
He's read Anarchism And Other Essays but isn't positive which one Inaaya means but yes that is SO UPSETTING.
The one about how she visited Leninist Russia and was disillusioned by the terror and despotism and oppression of anarchists. Inaaya is not herself an anarchist but feels they should be allowed to run newspapers.
They get back to Inaaya's hotel room first. "Do you want to come up to my place for coffee?"
"I really shouldn't, I told the others I'd be back by not long from now." And also he needs to write so many things down right now before he forgets any of them.
Meanwhile--
Araari, Zoe, Anita, and Oswald get back to their hotel room to find a VERY bleedy monkey.
Magnificence has WRAPPED HIMSELF IN SHEETS. that is what HUMANS do when they bleed. they WRAP IT UP.
The sheets may be kind of ruined.
“Oh no—is he alright—?”
Araari manages to bandage him up fairly well! With actual bandages.
ACE OF CUPS. he was honestly KIND OF CONFUSED about why they had a card for "mouths" but he UNDERSTANDS now.
magnificence puts the card on the floor and holds out his hands around it in an attempt to indicate the size.