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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3513405" data-attributes="member: 3448">Alistair looked thoughtfully at the diviner.  “Reverend Canon, you described time as like a river which forks occasionally.  The main channel now presumably runs through Lord Davion challenging the Master Unbidden to a duel.  Can you see another fork, where we lure the Master Unbidden into an ambush and use the vollers’ energy artillery?”“There is such a fork, but I see it ending in disaster.  Thousands dead…  The ships exploding in plumes of energy…  The armor returns the energy to its source, and then radiates in concentric circles.”Alistair closed his eyes and lowered his head.  “That’s it, then.  We have to have him fight the duel.”“But if he loses…” said Kit, not really disagreeing but still upset.“What choice do we have?  Are we supposed to risk thousands of lives to prevent a small chance of my death?  I never wanted to be Archduke in the first place.  I only came back to prevent the loss of many lives in a civil war.  I’m not going to inflict them through cowardice.”“No one is suggesting that you would or should, your grace,” said Dame Brionna, with surprising gentleness.  “We just wish there were a better way.  But I fear you are right.”“He speaks!” Father Toddle said suddenly.  “He speaks of ancient times, he speaks of rapid movement in his mind and sinews; things of which he rapidly loses control.  He seizes a priest, and presses a great sum of platinum on him.  He says to the priest, do good now, make up for what you have done before.”  The diviner looked a little dismayed as he said the last--the notion that any engaged in charity would view the work of the priests of Glor’diadel as something that had to be made up for offended him deeply.“Rapid movement in his mind and sinews?”  asked Dame Brionna.  “He must have taken the dust already.”“He burns, burns brightly.  I do not think he realized that his greater strength and drive would cause the burn to happen that much faster.”“Then he might not live to the coronation,” reasoned Dame Brionna.  “I wonder if we could speed up the flow of time for him somehow?”“I know there are psionic effects that can slow or stop the speed of time,” said Alistair.  “It might be possible to reverse those processes.  We would need to ask the Eldar.”</blockquote>

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