"She was frightened, even more so when she saw us--we were priests, my friend and I, had the seal of the priests right here."

He taps his chest, where on his robes is currently the seal of the Council. "It was the priests who had locked her people away, so they were all afraid of us, and some of them hated us. But we took her to stay with my friend's family, and... would you believe, his sister had been very ill for a long time, with a sickness that had no cure, but being with the child from the other half of our people healed her?"