"They aren't easily directed. They have a common goal but possibly three different personal agendas for each person."
It sounds like chaos. But what is he to say otherwise? He cannot lie to her. There wouldn't be a point in it, when she would discern the truth after listening to her crystal for only a minute or two.
"But we have common ground. I believe there's enough here sympathetic to the same things we have hoped to accomplish. We can marry our hopes for the future, if we do it properly."
This is a moment where John could say to her: The mages will hear us better if I speak to them.
But he does not. Because Madi will ask, why is that? and John doesn't yet know how to answer her.
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"They aren't easily directed. They have a common goal but possibly three different personal agendas for each person."
It sounds like chaos. But what is he to say otherwise? He cannot lie to her. There wouldn't be a point in it, when she would discern the truth after listening to her crystal for only a minute or two.
"But we have common ground. I believe there's enough here sympathetic to the same things we have hoped to accomplish. We can marry our hopes for the future, if we do it properly."
This is a moment where John could say to her: The mages will hear us better if I speak to them.
But he does not. Because Madi will ask, why is that? and John doesn't yet know how to answer her.