I was learning that part of a captain’s job is to delegate. Maybe genius lies in choosing the right person for the right task. - Glen Cook

That was not supposed to happen. It was unthinkable, supposedly. And for ordinary people that was mostly true. But not so at a level where men began to believe that they existed outside the usual rules.

Cruel, cruel tricks of the Adversary. I had been gifted with a mind that wanted to explore, to find out, to know. And I had been gifted with faith. And now I had been gifted with information that put fact and faith into conflict. I had not been gifted with a priest’s slippery dexterity when it came to reconciling the philosophically irreconcilable.

His problem is, he gets an idea in his head and he can’t get it out if it’s wrong, no matter what evidence you hit him with.