# Digest urth.v025.n016 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Apr 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *21 Apr 1999, 22:32* > We can side with Ava, and think "Godless communist Ascians are something > less than human." > > Or we can side with Severian, that the Ascians are human, and cannot be > killed in the guilt-free manner that butchers kill cattle or dwarves kill > orcs. > > But there's a harsher side to the whole exchange. Because even though > neither one knows it, the Conciliator has returned to the Order founded in > his name, upon his relic, and he has found it quite in error. And the > next > thing you know, the order has been destroyed on the battlefield, > never to rise again. > > Just a coincidence? Could you enlarge on this a bit? I'm not quite following. -alga ---