The big ghaele listens as Bi speaks. With every idea she espouses, his expression darkens.
"You mean there's greater dark than the general dark that surrounds all life as we know it? I don't know whether to take you seriously or become your disciple."
Pointing to the crystal sphere, "If that's really what you say it is, then the second we walk out of here those Mercane are going to be gunning for us. No Knight of the crosstrade with the kind of resources they possess is going to let something so valuable slip through thier fingers just because a small group of green bloods decides not to play ball."
"Ask your philosophical questions if you must, but I think we should really be concerned with, 1) concealing ourselves and that sphere, and 2) finding out just who this sphere would be valuable to and why. You can bet that any fiend worth it's blackened and corrupt heart will be gunning for us as soon as word gets out that we have a crystal full of souls. I seem to remember a tavern rumor about them using souls as currency. "
He sits down, and his violet eyes look strangely haunted. "Think of the effect even one of these could have on the Blood War if a fiend managed to crack one of these open. And entire Prime Material world's worth of souls..." his voice trails off and his eyes widen.
"By the styx! Think of what the factions would do to us if they found out. We'll have Takers and Hardheads coming out our rears!"
"I don't know what these spheres are. And to be honest berks... I'm not sure knowing would do us any favors but that seems to be the only course open to us at the moment."
He fingers the stylized axe woven of threads in his pajamas for a moment before speaking. "There's a price to every decision that one can make. I agree that it would just be blatently irresponsible to give the sphere away, but that means that, by not doing so, we're choosing to walk a very dangerous path full of powerful adversaries who may know a lot more about this than we do."
Looking away, out into the crowd he mutters, "...doing good is never easy..."