The Sailboat Collector jolted at the words.
For that question had echoed in his mind for a full ten years since he obtained the "Theseus Ship Spirit Ritual"!
He too had been searching for the answer on this path, alone, for ten years.
Essentially, it was a variant of the ultimate question in the "Theseus Ship Spirit Ritual"—the Red Beard Paradox.
Although he and the group of people inside were on different transcendental paths, at this moment, as they pursued the same question, they were fellow travelers!
If Mordent Gray hadn't known he was currently an infiltrator, he would have wanted to run in and sit down with that group to discuss the problem earnestly.
