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As I was looking through the satchel I also found the
letter you sent to Ark yesterday, telling him he had better
send in his assignment to find out how people feel about the
Cataclysm (as you call it) and how peeved you were that
Ark had not done so before now. I also read the part where
you said you understood Ark's concerns about talking to the
wrong people and being lynched, but his job required
dedication, and you seemed to imply that being lynched
wasn't half as bad as what you had in mind if Ark missed
his next deadline, which was tonight at sundown.
You said that Ark's assignment was important because
you were concerned that the purpose and lessons of the
Cataclysm were being lost in a sea of deliberate ignorance
and intolerance that could lay the foundation for future
disasters (I'm copying from your letter now), and you said
you counted on Ark and others like him to keep you
informed of the condition of the land and its peoples,
because if the peoples couldn't get off on the right foot (or is
that feet?), then maybe they never would and one day we'd
be sorry.
Well, I was amazed that anyone wouldn't know why
Istar had a flaming mountain dropped on it, since Istar was
such a poop nation and went around enslaving and torturing
and killing people, all the while saying the people were
being killed for their own good, until the gods got fed up
and turned Istar into the bottom of the Blood Sea of Istar for
everyone else's own good. Ark taught me all that, and I
always thought everyone knew that but then I never asked,
and I was surprised to read that Ark said he was afraid to
ask, and I couldn't figure out why not understanding the
Cataclysm meant we would be sorry later
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