I agree with you about flint.I believe that having back thomas and knowing what thomas had to endure and knowing the existence of places as the shame farm would have been one more reason for flint to continue the war and not to stop it. I do not think that living alone with thomas hidden by the world It would have been enough for flint nor thomas.

Thanks, Anon. I really can’t imagine either one of them being happy with that, tbh. I’d like to think that Flint gets them both out of there within, say, a few days of arriving and that they go on to go raise hell somewhere in the world because Thomas has been locked away for ten years. That’s ten years with no writing, no books to read probably – no life of his own and I’d imagine it was torture in and of itself to be denied the right to do something with his life that way. And I will never, ever believe that losing Thomas was Flint’s only motivation for continuing his war – he says as much himself when he tells Silver that he considers that a good man must, having seen what England does to men like Thomas and himself, stand up and fight.