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…what's going to happen.

"Besides the obvious witch hunt?" he asked, and you nodded, waiting for his response. "It's going to be mostly that. After that, they're going to make sure that the public never catches wind about this at all," Balogh said, and you blinked, not sure how to respond to that. "Dorn Wilton, have you heard of anything bad about our country, about our military, or about Mages in general during your lifetime?" he asked you, and you admitted that you hadn't.

"Lemuria's still a young country, and her leaders want to make sure that she'll survive to the next century. That usually means putting out good press, making ourselves indispensable to the world at large, and making Lemuria look like the new land of opportunity. If outsiders find out that we're just normal people with normal troubles, what does that make us?" he asked. You asked him if this wasn't some conspiracy theory that he picked up, and he smiled at you. "You've got a good head on your shoulders, kid," he said, and he didn't elaborate upon that. So you asked him about…