![]() However, Twelve performs poorly when made to train with heavy weaponry and in close-quarters combat or any sort of situation where brute strength is required, and the other recruits gradually learn his vulnerabilities and begin exploiting them. Jans, struck by the boy's strong, steady demeanor and his lack of apparent fear or desperation, allows him to stay for one week, at which point he will determine if Twelve should be allowed to stay for the rest of the six-week training period.Īt first, Jans is impressed by Twelve's ability to surprise and outdo many of the other recruits with his speed, agility, and ability to learn quickly. Twelve relents, saying that he is fifteen, but asks to be allowed to stay and train since he had run away from a place where he was being locked up and kept as a slave. Jans confronts Twelve to get him to admit his true age. Jans gives all twenty recruits a number he refers to them by instead of their names the young boy is named Twelve. Jans' first batch of twenty new recruits for the Corps are all young men who are unremarkable enough, save for one who is clearly undersized and under the required age of eighteen. Upon his return to the Borderlands, Jans had been hoping to be returned to active duty, but the decimation of the Free Corps during the battle alongside the Elves had sullied his reputation, despite the Elves' ultimate victory. Two years after the ferocious battle between the Westland Elves and the Demons of the Forbidding, Stee Jans is tasked with training young men to reform the Free Corps, the legendary shock unit of the Border Legion that he commanded and which played a pivotal role in protecting Arborlon long enough for Amberle Elessedil to save the Elves. He also cautions that their connection is likely not one that fans were expecting. In the introduction to “Aftermath,” Brooks alludes both to Jans and Jax being fan favorites as well as to persistent fan theories about a connection between the two men as being his motivations for writing the story. The tale features Stee Jans and Garet Jax and takes place two years after the events of The Elfstones of Shannara. ![]() “ Aftermath” is a short story first published in Small Magic, Terry Brooks' short-story collection. ![]()
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