A HOLE THROUGH THE EARTH

mutuals can be assigned to your squad and sent on missions. each mutual has a unique ability that can be activated during battle for special attacks, effects and bonuses. you can level up a mutual by giving them posts appropriate to their interests

the thing is, stephen king is generally pretty good at creating complex, well-rounded characters, which makes it all the more jarring when one of those characters abruptly comes out with what i'll term a "kingism". i don't know how best to define a kingism other than "you'll know it when you see it". it's the voice of the author intruding on the voice of the character, and in this case the voice of the author has a bad sense of humour and is ravenously, inexplicably horny