Chapter 11The prospect made Vredech churn with guilt. The Santyth protested that men were Ishryth’s greatest, most valued and mysterious creation. A man should not examine another as though he were some interesting insect or plant. Still less when that other was an old friend. But what else was to be done? Something had happened within the shade of that cloud which had affected him and affected him badly. How much more so then might Cassraw have been affected, who had already been disturbed when he had plunged into the heart of the thing with such demented enthusiasm? Others such as Mueran might be happy to regard the man who came down from the mountain as a considerable improvement on the one who went up it, but that was wrong. That was the easy way, the way of acceptance without inquiry,
