ā i donāt pretend to know the challenges youāre facing. ā
Hamilton sentences | accepting
Cass has heard about Joshua Graham, of courseā from news reports on the radio, from soldiers she bartered with or bedded, from other caravans. (From Joās rants whenever the name was brought up.) He was the scourge of the NCR, the enemy no one could kill. A nightmare to scare soldiers straight with. And here he is, offering her sympathy for her lost caravan.
Itās so surreal that it takes a few seconds for what heās saying to sink in.
āIām not asking for pity.ā She should give Jo a black eye for spreading the news aroundā unless the news of Cassā ruin has spread far enough for Joshua to hear it from someone else, and that thought has a sting all of its own.
She turns somber. āFrom what Iāve heard, you lost more than I did.ā Losing family happens in the wastes, but a whole town butchered all at once⦠āNew Canaan was good people.ā Thereās an Iām sorry hidden somewhere in the words. She doesnāt care to find it.
(Momās tribe mustāve been good people, too, and she knows the Legate didnāt show them any mercy.)