‘History can only repeat itself. I have lived too long to question this fundamental truth. Over and over again, I see it happen.’
‘So you would like to stop Dwinal from founding this Library?’
‘She must be prevented from creating this Library. She must be prevented from performing any further abuse of the draykoni in the pursuit of it.’ He looked sideways at me. ‘Or of your students. Her cheerful willingness to turn even our own descendants to use is similarly questionable. I could wish you had not brought them back here. She must not be allowed to “recruit” any of them.’
‘I never had any intention of permitting her to claim them,’ I assured him. I could not resist adding, ‘I might not have felt driven to resort to such measures, had I known sooner that we had an ally here.’
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