RFC wrote:
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“Apparently, Jeremiah Knowles wasn’t the only person who left a written record,” Merlin told her wryly. “Mind you, the perspective’s a lot different, according to what Aivah —”
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“We already knew how dangerously capable this woman is,” he [High Admiral Rock Point] continued. “Or we thought we did, anyway. What we didn’t know was that there was actually an organization that’s been around even longer than the Brethren and done just as good a job of keeping its existence a secret that entire time! Given this little bombshell of hers, I’m more convinced than ever that this is not someone you want deciding you can’t be trusted because you’re hiding things she needs — or obviously thinks she needs, at any rate — to know.”
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It had taken Aivah — Nynian — hours to tell her story, and he wasn’t foolish enough to think she’d even begun to share all of it even now. He certainly wouldn’t have, in her place. Not, at least, until he’d been certain the person he was telling it to was actually who and what she so obviously hoped Merlin Athrawes was.
“Owl has the entire conversation on record,” he said now. “All of us can peruse it at our leisure, and I don’t think Nynian really expects an immediate answer. She’s obviously aware this is going to throw us for a loop and she doesn’t know anything about SNARCs or coms, so she’s going to give Cayleb and me at least some time to talk it over and decide what to do. But Domynyk’s right about how dangerous it could be to give her any reason to distrust us.”
His mind ran back over that same conversation, and he felt a fresh flicker of astonishment even now.
I wish I could ask OWL to replay the whole conversation so I knew who founded it. RFC told us in snippet 1 discussion it was none of Sen Wei's arrows, nor Segin Khody. That leaves one of the Archangels. A real plot twist would be Schuler himself. I wonder if this organization was founded before the war of the fallen.
Like Hector's survival I think RFC will keep this information close to his vest to keep us in suspense.
Poker
and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.
