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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3541980" data-attributes="member: 3448">Once they were gathered, with Alistair at a safe remove, Kit reached out with her mind and examined the discs more closely.  The thoughts she had detected were there, but not because there was a mind present or even in communication.  Rather, they were memories, psionically inscribed into the high glass receptacles, waiting to be unreeled but nothing more.  She probed deeper, and a voice echoed in her head.<< This is the declaration of the death time of a master of the Order of the Black Tear.  It is delivered unto the one who best represents the goals and the understanding of the Black Tear, within the organization of the purchased foe.>>The mind fell silent and then a very different mind continued.  << You are smart.  You move wisely.  Your people are weak.  You make up for weakness with thoughts.  Only I remain.  Dust begins to take its toll.  I wait.  Your lord has a great one who speaks for him.  I wait.  There is no personal hatred of me for you or for him.  I think we had been deceived.  Many innocents.  Many innocents.  Some have already died.  This is not the Way.  But I am stupid.  I should not think.  I wished you to have this declaration, because there is no one else.  Win or lose, your people will remember that I was here.>>Kit continued to hear the presence of the discs in her mind for quite some time, but no further thoughts--apparently, the people who prepared the discs expected them to be used for a longer message than the Master Unbidden placed in them.  Kit repeated the message to the Council.“Much the same as we have heard from the other Harlequins,” noted Dame Brionna.  “They are being used by Quinliart for a purpose that they don’t support.  Of course, they are assassins for hire, so why they think they could end up being honorable anyway is beyond comprehension.”“Still.  Interesting, but nothing we need to deal with,” said Alistair.</blockquote>

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