"If you include herself, Avis owns three Councilors. So actually, she has far more authority than you do." Einstein didn't smirk or smile as she said it. It came out as a sad fact that she had already decided wasn't worth the effort to change yet. "But that's neither here nor there."
"And, you don't get it. The point here is that there isn't anything else to learn from it, not directly, anyway. Which is the whole point. Why would the Banishers keep something like this around? Can we stop it from happening? Those are the questions it can answer for us." Einstein grit her teeth together. "If we destroy it, here and now, one day, it will bite us in the ass. Someday, the war will come to a head, and the Reapers will come out to play, and when half of your precious Consilium has their souls torn out because nobody had figured out a way to better counteract their magic, who do you think is going to get blamed? We will. Us, the ones who destroyed the only clue to their powers."
"Even more than that..." Dark thoughts wormed their way into Einstein, and she started talking more softly. "We can use it. Not as...not as something immediate, no. But...eventually. A last resort. A nuclear solution, of sorts. None of us want to do it, but...we need to consider every option, every possibility. Even your Consilium destroys souls in extreme cases - this isn't that far off from the same thing."
"The Consilium may not be our enemy, but it's not our friend, either. Despite how we might talk about it, it isn't an organism in and of itself. It's a group of people, each one with their own selfish desires and thoughts on how best to resolve a problem. We've seen, over and over again, how that turns out. How much more proof do you need that maybe we should be more careful with knowledge as potentially destructive as this?"
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