There are many things Tommy D. was told he'd never get to do in the short life he'd been given, things as simple as traveling to Paris or Rome, or buying his own car, shopping in a grocery store, marrying, and having children of his own.
Space - even the mere idea of it - couldn't even cross his mind because it was so beyond the everyday simple things ordinary, normal people get to do - much less someone like him, a student from Hailsham. (A special student.
A clone.)
And he's alone. Alone in which he's the only one of his kind; there's no Kathy or Ruth around, no one else from the Cottages either. It's just him, in his much-too-baggy clothes, his coat hanging off thin shoulders, his eyes wide and his expression careful but curious. Maybe even a little scared.
He keeps a hand on one arm, trying not to look too out of place but failing. There are so many normals here, it's frankly off-putting.
How does he act? What does he say? What does he do?
(Kathy would know. Even Ruth would try something. But what does Tommy do? Tommy stands there ... watching. Looking like a complete fool.)
tommy d. | never let me go | 01
Space - even the mere idea of it - couldn't even cross his mind because it was so beyond the everyday simple things ordinary, normal people get to do - much less someone like him, a student from Hailsham. (A special student.
A clone.)And he's alone. Alone in which he's the only one of his kind; there's no Kathy or Ruth around, no one else from the Cottages either. It's just him, in his much-too-baggy clothes, his coat hanging off thin shoulders, his eyes wide and his expression careful but curious. Maybe even a little scared.
He keeps a hand on one arm, trying not to look too out of place but failing. There are so many normals here, it's frankly off-putting.
How does he act? What does he say? What does he do?
(Kathy would know. Even Ruth would try something. But what does Tommy do? Tommy stands there ... watching. Looking like a complete fool.)