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We are not kidnappers!" the Triune cries. "The god came to us and instructed us in how to make it speak!"

"Do you expect anyone to believe that?" Losh asks. "What have you captured?" The herbalist's apprentice has noticed the signs inside the idol and—to borrow some non-local vernacular—Losh has shifted gears about what's happening.

"These savages are beyond reason," Alexius mutters bitterly.

"But Losh might not be beyond reason," Control says. "Talk sense to him."