Ned never gets to see his gravestone. Which is how it usually turns out, really. Not all the time, just look at Reg, or Ned would if he weren't permanently dead. Unlike Reg. But anyway. There doesn't seem to be many ghosts on the Disc, at least not in the traditional see-through woo-woo sort. There's plenty of the metaphorical sort, though, ( Read more... )

Ned's a copper, so he doesn't see any reason to believe in too much. He believes that tomorrow might be better, but not if you sit and wait for it to happen. It's why he joined up, why he's been trying to change things. Because he believes, he doesBut not for a utopia. Not for a new mad leader. He can't believe in people much, can't believe in ( Read more... )

It was strange. He'd seen the man calling himself John Keel blur, confess he was from another time, jump on that mad Captain...and then saw a man dead. He saw the men fighting, the old soldiers and the watchmen and the soldiers who up til a few hours ago had been so nobly defending against the rebel barricades--as noble as their orders allowed ( Read more... )