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slaughter all the elephant-heads. I think that it would be far better for everybody if we had a truce and
arranged for a new society, one in which Neshgai are neither masters nor slaves but equals with the
humans. We need them as much as they need us in the battle against The Tree. We must think about
compromise, Awina. It is not weakness to seek for compromise. Strength is in compromise and in
alliance."
"The slaves and the Vroomaw want revenge," she said. "They have suffered for hundreds of years under
their masters. Now they want to pay them back."
"I understand that," he said. "But the sufferers can forget the past, if they're offered a good future."
"They can?" she said.
"They have. In my time old enemies forgot the past wounds and indignities and even became friends."
"My Lord," she said, swaying so that her hip brushed against his, her tail lashing across his calf, and her
eyes looking sidewise at him, "you will be talking of making a compromise with The Tree next! With our
ancient enemy, the Destroyer!"
Who knows?he thought. If the mind of flesh can meet with another mind of flesh, why not with a
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