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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sparky" data-source="post: 4648913" data-attributes="member: 13681">The young priest listens carefully, absorbing the details of the tale as the elder priests speak them. He bites back the temple-fresh training that makes him want to spout catechism on the destructive power of secrets and the freeing power of truth and knowledge. If there were more truths to learn, he had better not appear to be unworthy vessel. He falls back on a simpler doctrine... Keep your mouth shut, and your ears open. One of Anhela's favorites. His eyes follow the arc of the bag fished from Petra's pocket until it tumbles into Charlotte's hands. The lustre of the pearls in the dim light makes his heart flutter. The book, though, the book makes his heart beat in earnest, and his neck grow warm. At Pieter's summons Ranver steps forward, "It's a sacred duty of Ioun's faithful to seek knowledge. I also volunteer. I have had some experience enacting rituals and will act as Invoker if Jorge doesn't. His knowledge of the Arcane outstrips mine." Ranver looks sidelong at the mage before joining Pieter in perusing the book.</blockquote>