"The Moon" Emlyn froze at "the Hermit's" answer, then whipped his head toward him. "Mr. Hermit..."
Before he could finish, Odys raised a hand. "What I know is limited. I can't trade you information about the Blood Ancestor."
"I'll take whatever you know!" Emlyn said quickly.
Odys thought for a moment. "All right, but it'll cost 4,000 pounds. Some of that information is extremely valuable."
Emlyn opened his mouth, then said, "I'll raise the money as soon as I can."
"There's no need to rush," Odys said. "Knowing certain things before you reach a high enough Sequence isn't necessarily good for you."
The Moon nodded, but anyone could see he was distracted. He hadn't taken the Hermit's words to heart at all.
Behind the Gray Fog, "the Fool" Klein felt a little helpless. He had meant to steer the conversation back to the Ancient Gods' Subordinates, but instead he had helped the Hermit make a sale.
So he had "the World" ask the Hermit, "How much would information about the Ancient Gods' Subordinates cost?"
Odys considered it. "Do you want the details or just an overview? The details will cost 6,000 pounds. If you only want their names and titles, 1,500."
That expensive? Klein thought. They're only subordinate gods...
Then he realized: There must be more to them than that...
He had the World ask again, "How much do you know about the Angel Families?"
The new member, "the High Priestess" Cattleya, looked toward the World. She knew something about the Angel Families herself, but she noticed that the World seemed more interested in the Ancient Gods' Subordinates.
As for those subordinate gods, she knew only two or three.
After a moment's thought, Odys said, "My research into Fourth Epoch history happens to have taught me about most of the