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Klytos raised his voice to a mumble: "… under eye of… this forty-ninth day…"

Kip saw the luxiat eyeing another luxiat, coot up and murmured to Klytos Blue, who spoke sharply back to the man, flushed, and then turned back to his papers

"As I was saying," Klytos shrilled, finally speaking loudly enough that even those in the back could hear hi the most recent work of scholars to blinkered corners of our world Not long ago, it was considered heresy to speak of our world as if it were anything but a rolled-out parchment People believed that the world had actual corners--luxiats most of all Thanks to the blues and to the blue virtues,this to be superstition and not in conflict with the scriptures which were speaking onlythe center The center of Orholam’s will is a metaphorical statement, not a spatial one"

Kip had no idea what he was talking about, but a couple of the luxiats didn’t look particularly pleased with this turn Kip guessed that if Klytos lowered his voice another tiain

"In the last few years, there has been so work done by your co the Great Schism and the events that flowed out of the Deiree is better translated the War on the Gods The ‘dei’ of course is the ablative, and in h contextual evidence to support overturning the generally accepted ‘war of’ However, in Tristaem’s On the Fundaes in hoe understand old Parian grammar, our entire hermeneutics is shifted These shifts are under way now"

Kip’s eyes began to glaze over There were simply too ra, he couldn’t have followed if he’d wanted to He lost the strea around the room instead One old luxiat in her ru on a lemon Several of the older students actually looked fascinated, and Kip despaired Aht that the Chro, yes, but a place of practical learning He began studying the stained glass mosaics that lined the entire clerestory There was Lucidonius hi, surrounded by his Parian warriors, but his skin a couple of shades lighter than theirs That was interesting Kip had always heard he was a Parian outsider

Oh, maybe he was an outsider even to the Parians

Kip suddenly iuments over exactly what color Lucidonius’s skin color had been when the stained glass had gone in He knew the Parians claimed him, especially over their rivals in riches and power, their neighbors the pale-skinned Ruthgari The darker Lucidonius was, the ari

And now, despite that the stained glass had gone in hundreds of years after Lucidonius died, people would look at the s and assume that because they were old, theyKip wished he knew

Oh, hell That’s exactly what old windy up there is doing, isn’t it? Turning the world on the parsing of a word, like Kip was iain, and Kip had to lean forward to hear hiht Kip’s attention: Lightbringer "… which is why the Lightbringer is best understood as a ht into the dark corners of the world Not through ions of those beyond the Everdark Gates are serving the barbarians out there well, who are we to change who they are? Are they not also the children of Orholaht into the dark corners of our own lives, by being kind and generous, by speaking well of others, by loving extravagantly The Lightbringer is not coer is not one We are Lightbringers all"

The luxiats’ eyes all see from the roo at the ih Luxiat took the dais He didn’t even look at Klytos Blue "Choir," he said, "I wonder if you could close us with ‘Father of Lights, Forgive Us’ " It wasn’t, apparently, the song that had been planned

Oh, nice

But thebeautifully

Everyone shuffled out after the song and Kip asked Ben-hadad, "So as all that?"