Raymond's voice lowered, yet carried the weight of a ton.
"They won't rebel, my lord. The Night Watchers don't need them to rebel. They just need their hearts to be drawn to the gods.
"They only need a hint of hesitation when carrying out orders, a strong sense of identification with the Night Watcher's 'higher goals,' an instinctive resistance to what they perceive as unreasonable authority.
"This ideological 'betrayal' is more thorough and unsolvable than the rebellion of swords and blades because it's silent and invisible, yet already ingrained to the bone!"
Even someone as seasoned as Raymond, who has seen so much, still doesn't think those civilians will organize a large-scale rebellion.
It's not that they hadn't considered it, but they are deeply rooted in the belief that such a possibility doesn't exist.
Because the Night Watchers have been doing the same thing from the beginning.
From when they were just starting out.
