"Sophie's story, in particular," she continued softly, "is the one I remember the most. A lot of the stories there...they upset me, obviously, through all that abuse. That despair. But Sophie's sets a bar for cruelty that none of the others ever really match." Jenna's eyes narrowed once again, her nose crinkled. "And it didn't just upset me, Naomi, it made me angry. Angry at the sheer callousness of those boys, angry at the pain they caused, at the joy they took in taking the life of an old man. Of a girl who was barely a teenager. Of a father. Angry at the sheer fucking pointlessness of it all."

I think this one passage right here pretty much sums Jenna’s feelings on the treatment of beta’s and why she is so passionate about it and why she has a more conservative mindset compared to Claire and Melody. I don’t know if you intended it to be seen that way but that is what I get from it.

Also I noticed that Jenna said “moms”. Is her mother a lesbian? Was Jenna the product of artificial insemination? 

Not sure if you saw the other note I sent you, but now I'm all caught up on this puppy and relieved of the crushing guilt that I'd only read one of your stories but you've read a decent number of mine.  We're gonna have stuff to talk about next time, man.  Yikes.

I liked it quite a bit, in case that isn't coming through right now.

I am really enjoying this, despite my normally nonviolent nature. Your character development is deep enough to take me past that; I like hearing about these people. I had been wondering whether Corey's birth mother might be reintroduced to the milieu. I want her to be impressed, and sad at what she has missed. She lost big time! Whadda maroon...

From how Marion talked about it, I can easily see religions in the omega verse proclaiming that betas are cursed or whatever. US had no problem using religion to justify slavery. 

@gadgetmewombo

First of all awesome name man. I've been meaning to say thar for a while it's really fun to say out loud.

Second I'm not saying it's unrealistc I've read the story and know beta's have no rights but I feel it's still pretty harsh and very hard to read. It seems some alphas just lack empathy for lesser creatures and I have to wonder why? But I guess if you could get away with killing humans and not going to jail why wouldn't you? 

Well..thar was dark. It's a good thing betas aren't people or those alpha boys would be monsters.

Maybe others have asked this question and maybe you've already answered it but, How is shooting them thier first reaction? Most people I know have a problem shooting bunnies a widely accepted food source let alone a tiny being that looks and acts exactly like a human if not a human altogether.

Im glad Naomi's back for however brief the time. I wonder if Jenna's giving her extra attention because she's the closest to rehabilitation? Trying to really cement the change before Naomi's release. Honestly I don't think any of the Omega's fully hate her anymore and I would be surprised if she recieved more torture beyond what was mandated.

 I guess I'll do a rating although at this point it almost goes without saying.

So we get to see a glimpse of some more of the horrors Betas have been put through.  I wonder when the account given occurred.  It says 15 years, but that part itself is in a book so it could have been a lot longer.  I wonder how Omegas deal with Betas worshiping them like gods.  I know the good doctor doesn't like it, it has to make the rest of them uncomfortable at least.

Naomi is the one so far who is going to be the most affected by the accounts in the book.  And she can't even cry over them without coming off as a huge hypocrite.

I also like to remind Jenna that she didn't become the favorite, or a darling, or even super likable following Tough Love.  She basically broken even, and also made it clear that she's self aware.  So yeah, whatever she does with Naomi after the cliffhanger will count double towards her character depending on the direction she goes. 

Pretty chilling account, I'm assuming this is part of Naomi's ongoing education. Next chapter should be interesting as at this point we've seen some of Jenna's sadistic tendencies, but also seen her softer side.

It's also worth remembering that even though Naomi fully regrets her actions, she wasn't much different than the boys in this chapter.

Not an easy chapter to read.

Somebody write something to cheer me up after that.

Good to see Consequences back even though this chapter was pretty disappointing. I don't like short chapters, especially when your style of writing benifits from longer ones due to all the detail you put into them. This one didn't leave a good impression since it was mostly flashback that didn't really add anything new. Anyone that hasn't figured out betas were treated like nothing in the past hasn't been paying attention.

That said I know this is part of Naomi's rehabilitation and it's good to get a peak into that.

I don't know why Claire is letting Jenna see Naomi,though. Figured she'd be off limits after Jenna's last talk.