"'...the loftiest spirits of a million years...'" (XX, p. 599)
"'...- would you let your war lords turn these instruments to their own vile ends?
"'No!'
"And Flandry understood." (p. 600)
This might count as an Andersonian moment of realization except that this time we do not have to wait to be told what it is that Flandry has realized. If Aycharaych had not tricked the Merseians into believing that a few million powerful Chereionites did staff work to support his solo field work, then the Roidhunate would have sacked his planet, would have destroyed his heritage and then, with the appropriated Chereionite instrumentalities, have wrought even greater harm than he alone ever did on their behalf.
However, we cannot condone the manipulation of living beings that he regards as an art and a sport.
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