Mordred is not having a great day.
Which is like. Fine. Mordred Melchior Orkney, fifteen years old and the sort of person who names himself Mordred Melchior, doesn't have great days very often. It's a Sunday so he goes to church and sits piously and says exactly what he's supposed to and stays for snacks and gossip afterward and smiles and smiles and smiles and wants to die, or better yet vanish off into the night and never been seen in Gilead again, or maybe both? Both is good. If one more person asks how his handmaiding arrangements are working out he is going to scream.
No he's not. He's going to keep smiling and lying and hating every second of it and acting the part of the good Godly girl who is definitely not planning to run off to Cascadia or saving up money for same. But.
After services he leaves the church and--
--isn't really paying attention--
--runs directly in front of a truck.