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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacConnell" data-source="post: 7544744" data-attributes="member: 6855223">Stunned at the AvariceBulywif balks at the avaricious decree. "Nephew, I do not know what has happened to you. You walk away from the mundane life of the silk caravan, then become an economic success and reckoning force of Southroad Fair. You have one setback from a long established and superior foe, and now you want to condemn everyone without your talent and fortune as downtrodden and weak? What good would it do to undermine a despotic system of rule if you despise those who are ruled by it as much as those who rule it? You wear no collar about your neck. You cannot understand what it is to live with the imminent threat of death.Once we make shore, I am sure you will want to immediately depart to leave us half-starved, weak, downtrodden, condemned men to our own devices. These collars chafe; but away from the whip and the chain, we will learn to ignore them. You all have a gift not imparted to very many. I saw you free yourselves with it. Is there nothing remaining within you to prevent you from becoming the exact embodiment of malevolence you opposed in the form of the Ansylin Magistry?"Sheldon touches the elder man on his shoulder. "Easy Uncle! Sannit is angry. We are all angry. It is beyond frustrating to see that those who are ruled could walk away from their oppressors but do not. It is impossible to understand why they will not. As I gather from your resolve, your colleagues on this ship are all men who once tried and failed. We shall, indeed, separate ways once we make landfall. We have an army to stop. Once our ire has been sated, we will return on more peaceable terms to check on your situation. Maybe by then we can even rid you of those collars."</blockquote>

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