Chapter 17The meeting was more like one of Taithur’s old Prayer Meetings than a Council Meeting, its central feature being a prolonged and unanswerable sermon focusing around the ease with which the travellers were “falling from grace”.
“The Way couldn’t be made more clear than it is on this strange oasis that we’ve found. Now we’re here, we see vividly the results of the continuing corruption these people seem to revel in. We see them poison their atmosphere, poison their seas, their lands, sometimes so effectively that even we would have difficulty bringing back balance. They obliterate whole species with a disregard that beggars description, and fight amongst themselves for the right to do more harm. They even take pains to choose leaders who will ensure this folly can continue. And we
