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March 6 2016, 21:01:38 UTC 1 year ago
Two thoughts:
1) I wish that Alice had been the person who addressed the camera at the end. She's devious enough that she might have blamed the giant snake on the Covenant: "Hey Covenant of St. George! Nice try, but you snake-lovers better not try this again! This is our continent! Stay the hell off it!", or words to that effect. Might have been nice to have the whole world thinking the Covenant was a terrorist organization behind everything. Their name helps that impression, too. And there's none of the cultists left to refute the charge.
2) Verity cut her fingers on the snake's skin, very soon after it'd been thrust through the dimensional wall. We'd previously been told, near the end of chapter 11, that such intrusions bring parts of the dimensional membrane with them that can be used - "raw possibility... luck and lies and all the tricks you could wish for...". It will be interesting to see if there's any consequences to Verity of that close connection!