Chapter Summery: Just a dark thought of what could have been going through Kluke's head when they first met Nene.
She steps towards this monster of a man, and she's shaking. He could kill them, so terribly easy- he is the architect of her parents' murder. He could set the Land Shark on Talta again. He is a murderer with ancient machines at his command and she is terrified. (Kluke is furious. Rage burns at her, egged on by grief and pain and terror. She wants to rip and tear, to slaughter him like a beast and revel in his death. She hates him, hates him, hates him… Kluke wants to burn him alive and listen to him scream.)
Kluke is trembling with fear. She is scared of him, of his cruelty and his power. (She has a responsibly to save lives. Duty before death, before vengeance.) She is scared for her friends, her foolish, beloved friends and she'd never forgive them if they got themselves killed. (If they died for her it would be too much. She would destroy whatever killed them no matter the cost.) She is scared of herself, of the depths of her rage. (Kluke is a doctor-trainee, the daughter of doctors and she is supposed to help people.)