...They were afraid. I was as well but- it did not seem much like him from what I knew. But when everything you are told seems to mean one thing- for the sake of an easy answer? People believe strange and horrible things. Even when they ought to know better.

[ Rhys still had his supporters- but the whole Spire had been caught up in this fearful grip. It became easy to want a simple solution, one mage that needed to be handled so the rest of them might go back to their easier lives. ]