As always amazing series. Just wanted to post though: Are you familiar with René Girard's Violence and the Sacred? I recently read a few sections of it where he argues that sacrifice exists because humans inherently want to kill each other. To suppress that urge, society hence regulates violence to sacrificial victims, for whom there is no family or clan retaliation for their deaths. This therefore allows humans to fulfill their violent urges without causing society at large to collapse via an endless process of revenge. Anyway, something about that argument just struck me as something one of your antagonists would say while BB was tied to a table.
On a completely related note, I made BB look like Misty.
