TACIT - Chapter 26

I can see from the comments that people seem not to think negatively about the dad, but there’s one thing that keeps bugging me about Bevrian. I feel that he’s a massive hypocrite for needing Rovan around but always second-guessing him, going to the point to yelling at him every time. If you don’t want to go with Rovan, then don’t.

It’s nice to want everything to be sunshines and rainbows, but this is taking place in a literal zombie apocalypse outside their safe zone. Even if the father feels the punishment is “too much” for these thieves, he’s not the one who has to live out there, where I would assume rations and bullets are a matter of life and death; at least as far as whoever needs to procure them, if it isn’t Powell.

The way the writing is going, it sounds like the plot will require Rovan to sacrifice himself for Bevrian in order to get the father back home to his daughter. He already saved the father once when he made the decision to punt Arvan into the suicide bomber, and all three gets to live, which only served as another “holier than thou” beating from Bevrian. If he did nothing? I assume an infected zombie bomb would infect them both if they somehow survived the explosion. (A previous suicide bomber from the cult resulted in some infections to a total of eight casualties in a previous chapter, and that one was probably a living bomber.)

Sorry if it’s an unpopular opinion. Thank you for reading it all the way through, though.