Randolph

Randolph was tall, but shorter and stockier than his elder brother.
Army
Sargent
Operational Intelligence.
Uniform: He must be turning heads dressed as he was in smart army fatigues, a red beret, and mirrored sunglasses.
Is married to Evaline
but also! (Chapter 6)
‘Well,’ said Randolph. ‘There is this other thing. I’ve got two new wives now. They both hate me. I don’t blame them. I didn’t want them that’s for sure, but we all had to do it. I don’t know what to do with them, they are still back at HQ.’
‘Oh my God!’ exclaimed Nathan. ‘Evaline is going to absolutely flip!’
His PTSD
‘Well, they said they had things back then to help people. People with PTSD... There was dedicated medical support for combat stress, all that sort of thing. I mean, I’m putting on a brave face for the family, but nobody talks about that sort of stuff anymore. Now that God is here, what use are therapists? Now they just tell us to pray. It doesn’t help. I’m used to praying like a Muslim. Praying like a Christian just feels wrong to me, and every time I close my eyes – I’ve got, like ten different horror shows to choose from. The only good thing about having so many terrible memories is that they all sort of overwhelm each other. I don’t know why I’m telling you this.’
Bishop Thorman's opinion
‘Well, yes…’ As Sergeant Jack escorted him into the camp Thorman thought more on what he had just seen. Randy had fired no warning shot, or even taken the time to consider the taking of a life, however brief that moment might have been. Even his own Guards, who were no strangers to violence, had hesitated. Randy had reacted like a man swatting at a fly, or a man cutting down a weed in his garden. It spoke of someone who had killed so many times before that it no longer registered on their conscious. He realised how useful someone like that could be and wondered how many more young men like Randolph Jack were in the army. 
He remembered him a little from when he had been a Temple Guard, the younger brother of Nathan Jack. A really lovely boy, incredibly clever and finding it difficult to deal with the new world. Both were still teenagers as far as he knew, he had a vague idea that Nathan was nineteen which would make Randy no more than eighteen years old. 
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