<div>John Watkins wrote: <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><pre>Brings us back to Pas.</pre></blockquote><div><br>Or back to the Outsider, who enlightened Silk with the mission to "save the manteoin," (which actually meant save the people of his city and evacuate them to Blue). Silk's public discussion of that enlightenment got rumors to spread about him, probably boosted by the Outsider. If the Outsider could inspire one, he could inspire many others.<br>
<br>Kypris gave things a big boost a couple of days later by giving an appearance at the funeral -- those sacred windows had been inactive so long that hardly anyone believed they would see it happen in their lifetime. That it happened to the same enlightened holy auger everyone was talking about was a sure sign of the favor of the gods, so they must have thought.<br>
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