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The wizard frowned, looked away ’Workers and soldiers … you make us sound like slaves’
’She de, what you do you do for yourselves You work to earn sustenance You fight to protect it or to gain ht from fear and hatred and spite and honour and loyalty and whatever other causes you ht fashion Yet, all that you do serves her … no n, Adaephon Delat, but amoral We can thrive, or we can destroy ourselves, it matters not to her -- she will siain’
’You speak of the world as a physical thing, subject to natural laws Is that all it is?’
’No, in the end the minds and senses of all that is alive define what is real -- real for us, that is’
’That’s a tautology’
’So it is’
’Is Burn the cause to our effect?’
’Ah, you wind sideways like the desert snake you are in truth! Ask your question!’
’Why does Burn sleep?’
’She sleeps … to drea time When he finally looked into the old woreatest fears ’She is sick,’ he said
The witch nodded ’Fevered’
’And her dreams ’
’Deliriuhtmares’
’I need to think of a way to excise that infection, because I don’t think Burn’s fever will be enough If anything, that heat that’sthe opposite effect’
’Think on it, then, dearest worker’
’I may need help’