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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blind Azathoth" data-source="post: 3703023" data-attributes="member: 22041">Salix watches and listens to the color-coded Misters and Misses and the other summoned heroes speak. His face reveals nothing--not that anyone here would recognize any facial expression he might have made--and he speaks not at all, but the air around him swirls with a subtly shifting variety of woody and floral scents as his thoughts and moods change, strengthening when anger strikes him and weakening when he doubts himself. Thessaly's words strike the deepest chord within him...Perhaps...she is right. Perhaps it is not entirely their fault. Well, to be sure, it is not—Spirit herself is partially to blame. And yet...if we had been properly informed of the situation, perhaps she would have made different choices. Perhaps we would have been better prepared. We will not know if that would have been the case, of course, but the idea of putting people into danger simply because they think those being put at risk will be able to handle it speaks of...an arrogance, I suppose. That they decide what information is needed by those they place into the line of fire...Is it only me? No—despite the words being said, I believe some of the others agree, to some extent.  And for me, the idea of sending someone into battle with incomplete intelligence, even as a test, even if it should be an easy test, is... unthinkable. Never in my sixty years there did I hear of such a thing among Calliandrans.But perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps I shift the blame too much on others for their failure to save her. Perhaps I am as much to blame as everyone else here--for what did I to help? Perhaps it is my nature as an outsider, my upbringing, that colors my prejudices against these people.Perhaps, despite my anger, I will stay, and listen, and work with them. Perhaps it is so that my desire to help others outweighs my dislike and distaste for those others who could not save her. Or perhaps it is just my selfish desire to be a hero that does. And perhaps I will be able to work past this anger, which may be as unjustified and unfair as I accused these agents of being. May be.I...Need to meditate.But he speaks none of this, except in a language that no one around him can understand, and he continues to listen to those who do speak with words rather than scents.</blockquote>

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