[ the canal is rock that seems to be hewn seamlessly through the earth, and connects to the temple structure here, running down into lower parts not visible from here. there are some small metal-and-glass mechanisms along the side of the canal—they look like meters and gauges, in places, and switches and levers in others. ]
...not used to seeing white hair and it not being Raachna. Something's been going wrong for a while; don't suppose you're good at distractions or know where Raachna is?
Hm... well, if you can just talk to him for fifteen minutes or so, I think Ute and our new young friend here can handle it. If she's anywhere, she's probably talking to Lochaana, and who knows where she's gotten off to.
[ you go listen to what the lecture is on, presently. the instructor seems to be going over the degrees of akoorna and hoorna. Leaving a switch on that should be off is "little hoorna," while murder is "big hoorna." ]
[ to use deadly force where it isn't required in response to little hoorna is still, as it turns out, a much bigger hoorna, especially because it can't be undone; the instructor notes that some communities consider all killing to be hoorna, though that stance is rare, though of course the daar-aruuvi consider the death penalty to be barbaric.
self-defense to a non-deadly degree is akroon; a neutral preservation of life. and so on, and so on. ]
[periodically, Persephone will gently interject with another question or asking him to clarify a particularly thorny or confusing point of doctrine, trying very much to read as someone who wants to stay on the Correct Side of Orthodoxy, vague gentle and confused, rather then challenging. you know, someone who wants all the potential gray spots covered.
what about an unfortunate accident while attempting to defend oneself: force not intended to be deadly, should not have been deadly, but misfortune. etc. he's just trying to get the priest to keep talking.]
[ The instructor is clearly glad someone's getting into the interesting questions. Force not intended to be deadly but that ends up being so is a hoorna, but not a great one; it does, however, call for serious restitution to be made, rather than a purification of the pruugaa.
eventually, you notice that the water level has stopped falling. ]
once he notices, he'll keep asking questions for a few more minutes, just to give some extra time (and cover for that, too). like stopping immediately when he's been so engaged is suspicious, so he'll gradually start tapering off.]
[ the instructor looks faintly put-upon to have to answer such a simple question. The pruugaa is an air bladder-like organ that all Martians have—he gracefully refrains from asking you about yours—that houses one's soul. The purification of the pruugaa is a procedure that the worst criminals undergo, in lieu of the death penalty.
eventually you see hurricane and the man from the canal walking back toward the group, as you taper off your questioning. ]
[once he's certain that joining them will look very natural, he will do so, once the instructor is engaged in talking again. just...unobtrusively slide out again]
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The pair are discussing something, the woman with quite a lot of hand gestures. She says, to the man: ]
The water's draining—not fast, but it's definitely lower than it was. I don't have to explain to you that's very, very bad.
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...something has, ah...gone very wrong, then?
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...not used to seeing white hair and it not being Raachna. Something's been going wrong for a while; don't suppose you're good at distractions or know where Raachna is?
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self-defense to a non-deadly degree is akroon; a neutral preservation of life. and so on, and so on. ]
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what about an unfortunate accident while attempting to defend oneself: force not intended to be deadly, should not have been deadly, but misfortune. etc. he's just trying to get the priest to keep talking.]
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eventually, you notice that the water level has stopped falling. ]
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once he notices, he'll keep asking questions for a few more minutes, just to give some extra time (and cover for that, too). like stopping immediately when he's been so engaged is suspicious, so he'll gradually start tapering off.]
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eventually you see hurricane and the man from the canal walking back toward the group, as you taper off your questioning. ]
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