will be to make sure no patients escape.
133 From now on, no dangerous person shall be released without a board
of at least five Healers examining them, and determining if they are
well. If any patient is found, after three seasons, to be incurable,
and too violent for the public safety, they shall be returned to The
Lords, in the most humane manner possible, so they will not have to
spend all their days locked in a room."
134 Now some people did not like this order, but most realized that, in
the long run, it was the most humane thing for both the patients and
their families. When there was no hope of the person getting better, it
was best for them to be returned to The Lords and be born again. Their
family's grief soon passed, and they did not have to spend seasons of
misery with their loved one locked away from them.
135 Now, for many years The Oneness had been quiet, but now they, too,
had radio, and their planes were equal to those of The Children of
Spirit.
136 One fall morning Gray Boar was awakened by an Aide "There's an
important phone call for you, sir," he announced. "The Warlock in
command of the desert fortresses. They're under heavy attack from the
enemy; huge tanks similar to the Iron Boars. There's thousands of them!
He doesn't think they can hold out long."
137 Within minutes Gray Boar was in the command post, deep beneath The
Speaker's House receiving reports both by radio and by telephone. With
each passing hour the situation was growing worse. Only the fortresses
heavy guns were much good against these new tanks, and even mines
caused them little trouble.
138 The cannon on the enemy's tanks were tearing the fortress to
pieces! And now, heavy bombers were appearing, pounding them from the
sky as well!
139 The Children of Spirit's fighters were