Facts had altered and were altering beneath that spell.
What was the man saying?
Since Redwood had to report it to the Children of the Food, in a sort of way he perceived it did matter.

He would have to listen and guard his sense of realities as well as he could.
Much about bloodguiltiness.

That was eloquence.

That didn't matter.
Next?
He was suggesting a convention! He was suggesting that the surviving Children of the Food should capitulate and go apart and form a community of their own.

There were precedents, he said, for this.