Lion? If you’re a human in 40k you’re more likely to be a mangy street cat forced to work in a factory processing other cats into fancy feast. Fuck yeah I’ll be the Taus little pet over that, I can work in at a space turnip farm or something, maybe they’ll give me little human treats.
Two separate characters, Criid is the POV for that section of the book, a kid fresh out of boot camp thrown into the deep end and in that scene witnessing one of the bootcamp bullies (Boulder) getting domed by a commissar
huh. maybe it’s more obvious when it’s in context because to me it looked like it started out in Boulder’s POV until suddenly there’s a second POV character with another name
Yeah I think the redditer who transcribed the scene from the book probably cut off a few contextual sentences
That or my sneaking suspicion that Dan Abett deliberately writes with the audiobook adaptation in mind