Heirn made to speak but Atlon pressed on earnestly. ‘The effects of the normal use of the Power are understood perfectly. They’re calculable and consistent. They obey rules of logic and reason. Seeing through walls and hearing people’s thoughts with it is just plain foolishness — wild ignorance.’
Heirn adopted a schoolmasterly manner which left Atlon looking at him self-consciously when he had finished.
‘Logic and reason aren’t common commodities in Arash-Felloren, outlander,’ Heirn continued, as if he had never been interrupted. ‘Ignorance is. Very common. And, as I’m sure you know, ignorance breeds fear. And, right or wrong, like it or not, fear of what the Kyrosdyn are believed to be able to do has caused serious trouble in the past. Trouble that’s resulted in people being killed — hu
