Silence is Golden
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If I died, Rei thought, I wonder if the general would regret the loss of a good soldier. Maybe she’d give me a medal, but no way she’d ever shed a tear for me. She’d probably be relieved to be free of someone who spread pessimism like an infectious disease. Rei knew it, but…what did it matter?
Rei p.69
“You’re thinking we could be the first humans to come into contact with an actual JAM?”
“We have no idea what form the JAM really possess. We assume they’ve been hiding from us and that they’ve never appeared in front of a human. That’s Lynn Jackson’s opinion, but I have a feeling that may be wrong. I wonder if it’s not that they won’t appear to humans, but that humans aren’t able to sense them.”
“Like spirits, you mean?”
“Maybe, maybe not. There’s also the possibility that we look at them without actually seeing them. We see JAM fighters, and we have no doubts that there are JAM inside of them or, even if there aren’t, that they were made by JAM ‘people.’ We don’t consider the possibility that the fighters may be the JAM themselves because that’s just too strange to us. The JAM also seem
to be perplexed by the existence of these ‘humans’ they observe. Maybe they’re wondering, ‘What are those organic things attached to the fighters? What are they doing, wandering around on their own? Well, they seem harmless enough, so just ignore them.’ You can practically hear them saying it.”
Rei and Tom p.76
If I died, Rei thought, I wonder if the general would regret the loss of a good soldier. Maybe she’d give me a medal, but no way she’d ever shed a tear for me. She’d probably be relieved to be free of someone who spread pessimism like an infectious disease. Rei knew it, but…what did it matter?
Rei p.69
“You’re thinking we could be the first humans to come into contact with an actual JAM?”
“We have no idea what form the JAM really possess. We assume they’ve been hiding from us and that they’ve never appeared in front of a human. That’s Lynn Jackson’s opinion, but I have a feeling that may be wrong. I wonder if it’s not that they won’t appear to humans, but that humans aren’t able to sense them.”
“Like spirits, you mean?”
“Maybe, maybe not. There’s also the possibility that we look at them without actually seeing them. We see JAM fighters, and we have no doubts that there are JAM inside of them or, even if there aren’t, that they were made by JAM ‘people.’ We don’t consider the possibility that the fighters may be the JAM themselves because that’s just too strange to us. The JAM also seem
to be perplexed by the existence of these ‘humans’ they observe. Maybe they’re wondering, ‘What are those organic things attached to the fighters? What are they doing, wandering around on their own? Well, they seem harmless enough, so just ignore them.’ You can practically hear them saying it.”
Rei and Tom p.76