Tethered #133
MAN
You’ve got 30 minutes.
PANEL 3
LIAM
Come on in and take a seat, young lady. Please wait outside Henry, I’m sure we won’t be too long.
PANEL 4
LIAM
I didn’t think I’d be seeing you so soon. So, what appears to be the problem?
CARA
I’m fine. Really.
LIAM
Now if that was the case, you wouldn't be here.
PANEL 5
CARA
It’s nothing, I’ve got a cough after being exposed to the gas.
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And that’s not something anyone hears everyday. Here comes some questions.
*GASPS* UwU she should have eaten more apples, apparently they keep doctors away…Like garlic, to vampires!
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That guy doesn’t really have a look of ‘oh well that’s just fine, off you go’ does he
Nope D: I would say it is the opposite of what you have said!
30 Minutes? Pfft. I’m sure with modern post-apocalyptic medical technology she’ll be cured in 5, and ready to get back to farming in 10. I guess they’re being generous and giving her 20 minutes’ R&R?
But seriously, so much for sympathy. It’s striking how they can all be so good to each other, and yet borderline cruel toward Cara as she faces a serious medical issue.
In a way, I don’t blame them. Supposing Cara were out to harm them, she could have feigned a cough in order to get some alone time with someone she could overpower (namely the doc), then slip out the back, grab whatever she came to steal, and run for it while everyone else was waiting on her to finish her checkup and get back to the field. So it makes sense that they’d want to limit her opportunities.
But being on the receiving end of that kind of (admittedly justifiable) paranoia has to sting.
I also question the effectiveness of the particular timetable. 30 minutes isn’t really long enough for in-depth medical care, but it’s long enough for Cara to pull off the kind of ninja trickery described above, especially if Ed’s illness were also feigned (which it is, but not for the reasons I’m talking about) and he were waiting for a sign from Cara–or already busy looting–while nobody but Mike was watching him. It would be more effective to knock on the door and ask the doc if he’s OK every five minutes or so.
Hmmm… come to think of it, why isn’t there someone guarding Ed if they’re so suspicious of Cara?
I actually like this: It makes the comic more realistic. Most people don’t really know much about security, so the security solutions they come up with are largely geared toward making them feel safe but won’t really accomplish their goals and often have unexpected side effects that just make everyone’s lives more difficult. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’d expect to see in an environment like this.
And of course it also says a lot about the characters. They’re decent people but they really, really don’t trust outsiders. Maybe they’ve been burned before?
There actually is someone guarding Ed XD the red-head dude with the gas issues 😛
He has said 30 minutes because he needs a job done and she has been put there to help, he also doesn’t really know what the deal is with her, and I am not sure he cares. Most the people in the community look out for each other, but some of them may feel that inviting her into the community does pose a threat, and they want her to just get on with the work and leave.
As the doctor says in the next page, they worked hard to get where they are, some people may not like the fact that this stranger is coming in and sharing their food and sleeping in someone else’s bunk.
I don’t think Cara really cares how they talk to her, she has no attachments to these people, and in her eyes, she just wants to take what she needs and leave. So in some ways it would be best to keep an eye on her, she has her goals and is determined to achieve them. Right now she’s frustrated with being here with people watching her constantly, but she does it because she is weak, she needs the food otherwise she cannot continue much further.
I imagined that they had been through a lot previously, Ben definitely doesn’t trust anyone, I have left his scar pretty open to interpretation, but I do see that he may have received it while defending his territory. We also don’t know much about Mike’s dad, again, something I leave open. But I give hints that they were close, and his mum really cared for his dad, that his death was a tragic one that caused them to be even more protective and suspicious of strangers.