"Fused" more like fantastic

     So far we have gathered more information with this novel. Pressia and El Capitan down in the OSR headquarters' basement and Partridge, Illia and Lyda with the army mothers. The mothers have kept Partridge as a guest/prisoner while he makes maps if the Dome. They have told Partridge that he will be moving to the basement with the rest of the gang with Lyda. The mothers like Illia so they want her to stay back with them and she does. 

     Illia realizes that she doesn't have to look a certain way or feel uncomfortable about her scars. She realizes that they make her unique and are a symbol of who she is. In the beginning of the first book when she was introduced as "a frail housewife with questionable morals" it made me think of a weak person not knowing how to help themself. The author really made a point across trying to show the audience that she can fight when she wants to. 

     El Capitan and Helmund have had a tough time raising an army from practically dirt. This one scene in particular showed how Pressia fuels El Capitan. He and Helmund were out in the woods trying to patrol the grounds for Special Forces sent from the Dome and El Capitan took out a sandwich, at first half of it fell on the ground so he couldn't eat it. Right as I thought that El Capitan was about to eat the whole thing, he halved it with Helmund. The author later went on to say how Pressia showed El Capitan that instead of trying to always put Helmund down and make him feel low instead, El Capitan should build Helmund up and see what they can achieve together.