[Bookpossum]

I think that by the end, Toby saw it as a very real possibility that he would be killed by Crispin’s henchmen. He wanted to get Emily to leave him to keep her safe, even though he couldn’t have got to the Internet cafe on his own, or operated the keyboard.

Near the beginning of his part of the story, there was a conversation with his mentor about the moral dilemma of whether to stay working for a government with whose policy you disagree, or leaving and being “another lost voice bleating in the wilderness”.

Initially, he stayed, but in the end he felt he had to act, whatever the consequences.

That’s an interesting comparison with Estraven, who clearly at the end acted as he did to force the situation. He must have felt he didn’t have anything left to live for, exiled from his home and his country. Toby did however, having met Emily who was clearly his soulmate.

Crossed with gmw!