The sealing of Ocasuan was thus decided amid the back-and-forth between Violette and Eilistraee. The matters involved were extremely complicated—energy consumption, spatial stability, personnel allocation, and so on. Solam remained silent most of the time, only speaking up on a few necessary points.
For instance, when it came to making use of Mother of Mists Island, Eilistraee fully displayed a woman's instinct for careful calculation. At first, she had wanted to completely isolate Ocasuan, but after Solam proposed a solution that satisfied both sides, she felt that leaving Mother of Mists Island idle would be far too wasteful.
She felt that the slave trade could continue. For a deity on the verge of revival, there could never be too many believers. Once Ocasuan was sealed off, the island itself naturally could no longer take in slaves, forcing her plan to expand her followers to be shelved. Completely sealing Ocasuan would originally have brought the same result, but Eilistraee had not been able to concern herself with that at the time. But now, wasn't there a solution that worked for everyone?
Thus, her thoughts began to stir. She felt that Mother of Mists Island could also house quite a few human slaves. Even if Eilistraee had to lie low, she was unwilling to completely give up on development.
Solam did not particularly care about this. As he had said before, as long as Ocasuan's supplies could continue to be shipped out, money was no issue at all for him.
In fact, aside from providing money, much of it had little to do with Solam. He did not understand things like resource allocation, personnel assignment, or the whole series of supporting rules and regulations, so he simply could not meddle in them. Those matters had always been handled by Violette and the