That... ...sounds rather similar to what I've heard then, [He says softly.] ...Truthfully today is the first I've heard the term 'Radience' so often. From the context I had gathered it connected to 'candles' and similar but...

[The words 'radience bomb' ring in his mind, and Jonathan swallows.]

...I had expected to be fighting things to stave off the end, because I knew how, and had done so in the past. ...have they really enlisted...

[He doesn't finish the statement. The very way Jolyne was taken here after all implies foul play involved- a ticket from an otherwise horrid cell for a far more gilded one, no doubt. Jolyne at least was an adult, not too much younger than himself in mind though.

There were children here.

There were many children here.

There...] ...