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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2859431" data-attributes="member: 7280">"There are different sorts of magic and the end of a chase isn't always the most direct path, or the most informative...or prudent one, to persue." Nelson explained as he began to mop the floor. "Chasing a track is well and fine for finding your dog, but Lizards aren't dogs. Haste makes waste, an' it puts us on the end of the tail instead of looking for the head. And that's how you kill a Lizard, you kill the head. You yank its tail, cut it off, put it on a plate? Whatever, that don't do a turd's wiggle for it bitin' you. Now, I realize you're all pissfire mad now and you've all clenched yer cheeks right tight with the suggestin' that you'd be wrong, but you're wrong and heaps wrong besides. I made my promise, and I keep promises if'n nothin' else.""I told you, go on and spill yer blood outside town. That might make it easier t'get Jango back if them Lizards think they've killed a passel of us and that's enough to make right whatever's got them stirred up. I'll miss yer poor humor Miss Khalia, and your righteous and holy coin too, but you're not worth dyin' for or killin' for or doin' the wrong thing t'appease you neither.""But that's what I'm sayin' - it don't do a lick of good to find Jango if we don't know why they took him. Because if they took him for a pot," he looked uncomfortably over at Master Silversun," then we've got plenty o'time for revenge an'fire. And since they took him at all that speaks loads about them either wanting a stew an' starting the drums a'beatin' on all sides...and don't make no sense, I remind you all...or they took 'em because they want something that they think t'bold out of Seawell by holdin' him. Jus' killin' a few Lizards that have grabbed him won't fix the problem. Just getting Jango back, won't fix the problem. An' if'n it makes you all surly an'defensive, fine."Nelson ticked off points on his fingers."Jango's prolly hurt, right? What if he's so hurt he can't get out on his own? Khalia, you said you've got "some small measure o'healin'", what if you've done yerself in taking care of your ownself? We need linaments and healin' stuffs, so that if yer out of yer small measures or feeding the soil peaceful-like we can get Jango back anyways.""We need to know which of the Lizards stole him away, an' that don't mean findin' out which exact ones but which tribes, because the only folks the Lizards fight with more'n us is each other. That means that we've got friends of a'sort out there, for a while. There's always a chance that whoever this is, they're not sweet with the rest of their kin an'tribe too, which means their tribe could be our best allies imaginable. Lizards trade too, an' we've got stuff that don't trade too well when killin's and elf-nappin' is goin' on.""Since they took him instead of killed him on'th'spot, they took him someplace. Followin' a trail seems hight excitin', but there's as like a chance that we could jus' find out th'likely spots on'a map. Zan's got lots of maps, an' so does Master Silversun, and alike I could probably scrounge up one or two with a talk with m'cousins or three too. Again, this is just good sense, because only a fool jumps into a hole to find out how deep it is.""If'n we are, after much consideration, gonna be fightin' the whole Three Claw tribes, or the Dark Eye, or worse one of th'bigger ones out there, then all the rushin' an'followin' in the world won't do much good without an'army or at least some better plannin' than 'rush out inta the dark'""Perhaps if you all got tired of hatin' me for speakin' some sense instead of squawkin' alike you expect you'd find the time to speak some yerselves? Because truly, I'm plenty of experience with souls to pure to listen and too certain to learn. If you all can't figure that out then yer nothin' better'n a Wilken Luttin." he said, referencing the somewhat tragic Luttin cousin who wandered the town hugging strangers, after an unfortunate incident involving an attempt to milk a horse and a sharp, life-changing blow to the head.Nelson sighed, still trying to convince the group."I'm not doubting courage here, I'm sayin' that when the brave and the foolish man walks inta the room he often finds hisself alone. I do it enough on m'own...about pies and pretty girls. We're talkin' about people's lives though now.""Or maybe we're not fer some o'you. That's fine too. But thats where I'm standin', talkin' like I am right now, alike as you might ask the town to paint a picture of it so they remember the moment."</blockquote>

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