I have the greatest respect for what you're doing, and do not think I am the person to entrust enterprising children to. It would probably be fine -- but I am the person who read through a house catching on fire, so I'd never get to read again. I only borrow children when they are going to be the focus of attention!
Your point on the quiet child not being suspected is a good point. I could talk -- but at that age around adults I was an observer, mostly. And would ask devastating questions later. I don't know if I would have been brave enough. I hated pain, but did not become afraid of larger boys until later. These children know they have strategic value -- as as fertiles, would be kept and raised to become citizens even if they did not have chess value. So they will probably only be killed accidentally. Still -- the child would probably figure out that the attack was NOT a mistake -- therefore, they'd be frantic to know if any family was still alive, and afraid that if they didn't get out soon, these crazy people who would actually KILL other people might hurt them, too. Because they would be fairly certain several family members were dead.
I have to get back to the book going E soon, sigh. But wanted to get that out to ask friends who have actively watched small ones growing up with tech around them. With a couple of kids dying they may not read the book -- but the deaths will count. Eventually, those deaths prevent other deaths. Not wasted. Hard, but not wasted.
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Your point on the quiet child not being suspected is a good point. I could talk -- but at that age around adults I was an observer, mostly. And would ask devastating questions later. I don't know if I would have been brave enough. I hated pain, but did not become afraid of larger boys until later. These children know they have strategic value -- as as fertiles, would be kept and raised to become citizens even if they did not have chess value. So they will probably only be killed accidentally. Still -- the child would probably figure out that the attack was NOT a mistake -- therefore, they'd be frantic to know if any family was still alive, and afraid that if they didn't get out soon, these crazy people who would actually KILL other people might hurt them, too. Because they would be fairly certain several family members were dead.
I have to get back to the book going E soon, sigh. But wanted to get that out to ask friends who have actively watched small ones growing up with tech around them. With a couple of kids dying they may not read the book -- but the deaths will count. Eventually, those deaths prevent other deaths. Not wasted. Hard, but not wasted.