There were two natives I brought back with me when I took Wilhelm, he says. So others did continue to make it out without your vigilance, and that comes with a touch of annoyance because seriously Istredd, fine, you can be 'responsible' for the new Summoned or whatever mantle you felt like taking up but literally taking up responsibility for everyone else is pure idiocy.

Abraxas' own people were out to get them. You can't change that. There's always gonna be some bigger fish taking advantage of the guys below them, finding whatever 'in' they can get and use it.

It's a fact of life as far as he was concerned. He didn't have to make humanity flawed. He just fast-tracked the inevitable. Their flaws were there; he took the highlighter to them.

"You want to try and find your bookstore?" I don't want to be in this city for longer than we have to be, but... He's not going to deny Istredd books, even if it was just to window-browse.