“I hate it when you’re gone for so many days.” “I’m sorry, but no matter how ill you are right now, I’m still the king,” said Motiak. “That’s right, so you have people to find out things and report to you and you don’t have to go and see for yourself!” “I’m king of the earth people of Darakemba as surely as I’m king of the sky and middle people. They need to see that I don’t want them to leave.” “You issued that decree, didn’t you? Forbidding people to organize boycotts of the diggers?” “Oh, yes. I decreed, and immediately Akma and the royal boys went about declaring that in compliance with the law, they no longer advocated a boycott and urged people not to stop hiring diggers or buying goods made by diggers. Thus I can’t arrest them while their boycott message is still being spread by their pretence of discontinuing it.” “I still think you should make them come home and stop letting them speak.” “It wouldn’t change the fact that people know what they believe, what they want.
