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 One of the councilors, a blood-red female in sheer green robes, stood up. "Good Oracle, you //have// said this before. And to you I say what //I// have said before: deflecting attention has its disadvantages, but picking fights with the Unchosen will actively invite it. No scouting party returning to their homeland will announce us to the world more effectively than that same party disappearing without a trace; better to steer a small group wrong than to have an army on our threshold." One of the councilors, a blood-red female in sheer green robes, stood up. "Good Oracle, you //have// said this before. And to you I say what //I// have said before: deflecting attention has its disadvantages, but picking fights with the Unchosen will actively invite it. No scouting party returning to their homeland will announce us to the world more effectively than that same party disappearing without a trace; better to steer a small group wrong than to have an army on our threshold."
  
-"Armies will come nonetheless, Councilor Jorith," Dlyss replied sternly. "They can be fought now, wile they are small and far, or later, when they are large and near. But they will come. I have seen it."+"Armies will come nonetheless, Councilor Jorith," Dlyss replied sternly. "They can be fought now, while they are small and far, or later, when they are large and near. But they will come. I have seen it."
  
 "So you keep saying," snapped Jorith. "But we have only your word for it. None of us are eager for the company of Unchosen, but your aversion to them is well-known-" "So you keep saying," snapped Jorith. "But we have only your word for it. None of us are eager for the company of Unchosen, but your aversion to them is well-known-"
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 She paused, still staring at nothing, leaving the second thing unsaid.}} She paused, still staring at nothing, leaving the second thing unsaid.}}
  
-{{wst>pinkgothic|The reaction was predictable even to someone not an Oracle, were the ypaying attention. "And the other thing?" Einriss asked, even as his mind started working on the task, pondering his options and whether a plant would do for the constraints given, or if something at least fractionally more mobile was necessary.}}+{{wst>pinkgothic|The reaction was predictable even to someone not an Oracle, were they paying attention. "And the other thing?" Einriss asked, even as his mind started working on the task, pondering his options and whether a plant would do for the constraints given, or if something at least fractionally more mobile was necessary.}}
  
 {{wst>shyriath|"It will be difficult," she murmured in a dreamy voice, "but necessary. Chosen can sense the presence of other Chosen, unless they are deliberately hiding. Therefore there is a faculty that exists that allows one to distinguish between a living thing that is Chosen and  one that is not. This must be isolated, and a way found to incorporate this faculty into other organisms."}} {{wst>shyriath|"It will be difficult," she murmured in a dreamy voice, "but necessary. Chosen can sense the presence of other Chosen, unless they are deliberately hiding. Therefore there is a faculty that exists that allows one to distinguish between a living thing that is Chosen and  one that is not. This must be isolated, and a way found to incorporate this faculty into other organisms."}}
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