The Audience

[Sh'ozak Ma'hk'null]

Thinly veiled impatience, distracted and calculated.

Our window of opportunity appears to have passed. The Betraying Ones claim to have cured him of illness and to have released him. They claim that our whispers to him have caused this illness, which raises the urgency of our contact with him. Knowing that he is of some form of safety is reassuring.

They have reminded us of a lesson to teach you, however. That which makes the Light superior to all else that swims our waters. We have yet to teach you the mistakes of our predecessors, and how we have learned from them. We are made to shape and create. If our very selves should fail, we can shape ourselves, and create ourselves anew. Our predecessors failed to learn from the grand mistake that was the Collapse. They once sought to repeat the methods by which Infiltrators worked, to embed themselves into groups of darklings and to manipulate from within. They made many things to this end, some of which haunt us to this day. These methods failed, of course, despite what praise the Betrayers have for them. The Cursed Ones manufactured crude objects to see Infiltrators within the flesh of darklings, and all of Darkness now fears that an Infiltrator is among their midst.

Yet from these mistakes, we have learned the way we have now. We quietly grow our power, moment to moment shaping new fangs for our Keepers, amassing ourselves and hiding these masses. Our Infiltrators have new tasks, to hide among the darklings and destroy the pillars upon which they build with their own shells, disorienting and distracting them. We learn their "fleet maneuvers" and devise counteractions to them. From the failures and successes of the past, we have shaped our present, and will create our future. So you must do as well. Learn from the mistakes and successes of the past. Your past, our past, the past of those you have yet to meet. Remember that which is successful, and add it to your options. Discard that which fails, for only fools repeat the same action and expect different results.

Add this to your knowledge, our Oathborn Daughter. We shall see you succeed in all things, and learning from the success and failure of others is paramount to this.