"You trusted them," Rex said. "That is not a failure!"
"That is what a civilization does... It extends trust because trust is how communities function, and the people who exploit that trust are not proof that trust is wrong!"
"They are proof that the people exploiting it have no place inside the community they are exploiting."
"They will be removed."
"Not eventually... and not when the restructuring produces a formal recommendation and the council reviews it and the appropriate procedures are followed."
"Tonight! Before this address ends... The eleven individuals in this kingdom who carry the Legion's marking will be visible to anyone with elemental perception because I have already broadcast the frequency that makes them visible, and the marking does not wash off, and there is nowhere in this kingdom or even Underlayer they can go where that marking will not precede them."
He paused.
"If you can see the marking on someone near you," he said, "step away from them."
