Marauders #11: To Live and Die on Krakoa
Sep. 27th, 2020 09:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

'But more significant to me is that image of Kate’s cremation, her body set to sea, engulfed in fire. Engulfed, yes, but destined to rise again. Kate will return to us in a way that her family, and my family, and six million others could not. She is the Jewish woman who will not perish in the flames, the bush that burns but is not consumed. She will not be obliterated from the history of her people. “Never say that there is only death for you,” begin the lyrics of the old Polish partisan song, sung by Jewish resistors in the darkest days of the war. On Krakoa, death is not the end. It cannot be. Kate, Jewish, mutant, will endure. To life, indeed.' - Zach Rabiroff, Kate Pryde, Peoplehood, And Surviving The Flames
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