Bab 529: Proven Suspicions

Though the Drifting Mountain, which referred to the Wailing Sierra's mountain that continued shifting toward Enira, also causing some large fissures in the ground, was enormous, the Fiends kept an assiduous advance.

All the while, Kieran watched the activity below increase in pace and efficiency as the collection of people grew, pouring in from what he assumed to be a portal linking to the Drained Space. Kieran couldn't be sure of their mode of travel, but he was growing increasingly confident in the assumption of their identity.

The implied hostility and contentious nature of Cardinal Weiss' words spoke to hidden antipathy — perhaps his or maybe the Flame that resided within him. 

It was hard to differentiate between whose emotions sometimes guided the Cardinal — the ambivalence of his actions and thoughts a consequence of the Significance's strange utilizations.