Nay, you need not start! We need no deathsman; alike by sudden disease, by suicide, by accident, our doom executes itself.

But enough of this.

I accepted the vote which invested you with the second rank in our Order, less because I think you will render service to it here than that I desired you to possess that entire knowledge of its powers and secrets which might enable you to plant a branch or offshoot where none but you could carry it ...
That you will soon leave this world seemed to me probable, before the anticipations of practical prudence were confirmed by the voice of prophecy.

Your Astronaut shall be stored with all of which I know you have need, and with any materials whose use I do not know that you may point out.

To remove it from Asnyea would now be too dangerous.