a tour. During the tour they will have lunch. The meal will be poisoned, then their bodies can be burned in the factory furnaces. I don't want a trace of them remaining."
42 The people looked at him in disbelief. "Why, Lord?" they asked, "Why? It makes no sense,"
43 "I do not want them counted among our people," explained The Priest of Priests. "It will benefit us later if they're not. Do not argue with me, do as you are told. Now, go on. Get out! Start planning to carry out your task. I have other things to attend to."
44 So those in charge of the project departed, but they were not pleased. Their leader, Gray Crow, took them aside. "The Priest of Priests has gone mad," he pleaded, "Defeat has destroyed his wits. We must save our charges. They have done no evil, and do not deserve such a cruel death. Are you with me?"
45 The others nodded in agreement. "Very well!" he continued, "we will pretend to go along with The Priest of Priest's orders, but we will make our own plans, instead. There are many hiding places our people have built in case the enemy was able to break through our barriers. We will delay as long as we can, then take our charges to these hiding places and keep them safe until we can turn them over to The Children of Spirit, who we know will not harm them."
46 So, fortunately for him, The Priest of Priest's plans to destroy the clones failed because if Thundering Boar had found out he had succeeded in killing one of these strange children, he would have executed him.
47 As it was, when they entered The Oneness's land, The Fighting People were taken to the hiding places, and shown these thousands of young boys between eleven and nine seasons. To their astonishment sometimes, as

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