Soon the Myrmidons would surround him, silver nets shooting out to catch him in their sticky tracery.Gold-Eye pictured them in his head, trying to get his Change Vision to show him exactly where they were.īut the Change Vision came and went when it chose, and couldn't be controlled. It sounded like a trio on each side of the train, coming toward him. The Trackers were on the move again, spreading out to search.Lifting a trapdoor in the floor, he dropped down, down to the cold steel rails. He came out of the vision and took the escape route he'd planned months before, when he'd first found the carriage. Fog no longer fell in lazy swirls, but danced and spiraled crazily as huge shapes lumbered in, moving to the pile of blankets. Gold-Eye's Change Vision suddenly gripped him, showing him a picture of the unpleasantly close future, the soon-to-be-now.ĭoors slid open at each end of the carriage, forced apart by metal-gauntleted hands four times the size of Gold-Eye's own.White at Writers Write (July-August 2000) As quoted in "A conversation with Garth Nix" by Claire E.Is that story then really about the triumph of evil, or is it about the awakening of opposition to evil? But I would include the hope that this would lead to the people involved doing better next time.
For example, I could envisage telling a story where the inaction of people leads to the triumph of evil. This is very different to toeing a particular moral line or leaving things out.Ĭertainly I don't think good always has to triumph over evil it depends on the story and the aims of the book.
So if they want to address particularly sensitive topics or taboos, they have to do so consciously and carefully.
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