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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7321977" data-attributes="member: 20323">&quot;My brethren will plead first with words,&quot; answers the Al-Aeshma with a rumble in his violet chest like a thundercloud. &quot;If the Lords of Air will not hear, they will make them listen... It may be foolish to request wisdom of a figurehead, and yet it would be just as foolish to lay down in silent submission.&quot; The words the Al-Aeshma chooses are selected with clipped precision, as if it has centuries to perfect its argument, each kernel it lays down a trap that Salahuddin might stumble into... An tantalizing offer of secrets here, a plea to Salahuddin's own fiercely independent nature there...[SBLOCK=Akilah]@Thateous Though the Al-Aeshma has told no lies, its opaque answers...what it avoids saying outright...speak volumes. You're certain that its brethren, should push come to shove, would resort to underhanded tactics, if not violence, to make their case to the djinni Great Caliph.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7321977, member: 20323"] [b]"My brethren will plead first with words,"[/b] answers the Al-Aeshma with a rumble in his violet chest like a thundercloud. [b]"If the Lords of Air will not hear, they will [I]make[/I] them listen... It may be foolish to request wisdom of a figurehead, and yet it would be just as foolish to lay down in silent submission."[/b] The words the Al-Aeshma chooses are selected with clipped precision, as if it has centuries to perfect its argument, each kernel it lays down a trap that Salahuddin might stumble into... An tantalizing offer of secrets here, a plea to Salahuddin's own fiercely independent nature there... [SBLOCK=Akilah]@Thateous Though the Al-Aeshma has told no lies, its opaque answers...what it avoids saying outright...speak volumes. You're certain that its brethren, should push come to shove, would resort to underhanded tactics, if not violence, to make their case to the djinni Great Caliph.[/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]

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