"Yes. She's so single-minded it's unbelievable. There's the problem, which she knows; there's the solution, which she's looking for, and there's the Goddess, who will make it all okay.""When you put it that way, she doesn't sound all that different from us. But somehow… I don't know. I think it's the way she's willing to gamble so many lives, including her own daughter's, on this.""Yes." Miryo fingered the tail of her braid, twisting it around her finger. "Maybe that's the only way to do it, though. There really is a problem. The clergy have been saying so forever, and we've been ignoring them. I think that 'unbalanced' thing must have something to do with this. Which is encouraging, in a way; it means that we are right, at least in thinking that the current situation is wrong.""Whether any of our hypothetical solutions are right is another story.""I guess we'll find out." She glanced up sharply as a rumble of thunder reached her ears.Mirage also looked up and made a sour face. They were in a large, open field probably intended for grazing, though at the moment no livestock were in it.
