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"See that down there Shade Dancer? That's wartime industry, The Weaver--and she comin' this way. The clothes and tents that they are making down there are going to men in the field to fight a war. Gonna be a lot of killing in the name of ideals....
"You know, jes' like us.
"Now, mebbe we don' understand why apes kill each other--and mebbe we don' need to--but I'll tell you that their ideals drive them. Jes' like our ideals drive us, but we know that the stakes are a lot higher. Mebbe you don' understand about "property" and "prosperity", but you, all of ya, understand about holding on this Caern. That city is comin' this way. Mebbe not today, or this year, but those people are going to spread out and build houses closer and closer to us up here. Then what we do? Kill 'em all? Break the Litany?
"I said "No". Tha's why I'm doing it. I know that the deed to this land means somethin' to them. I'll buy the land with money I'll never spend, make this place ours by their laws and make sure there's always money here to keep it that way. Mebbe you don't understand that, but I'll tell ya this much, they do. I know it's true, cuz I walk among 'em everyday and getto see them thinkin' about it. S' how I made my fortune, ya know.
"Some things is worth keepin' hold of. Oh? The money? Heh...money is only as good as what you spend it on."
--Emmanuel Zebediah Tarkham, Athro Ragabash Glasswalker, 1862
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