Elaine nodded. “Tell me, suppose that instead you had a hundred times as many wolves captured, and brought to those forests for release—what would happen then?”
Elaine looked a little surprised, before her face went expressionless again. “Yes, that’s so. Like you said, there’s no Magic powerful enough to directly oppress the farmers and shopkeepers of a whole country. So we’re not looking for a straightforward curse, but some new factor that has changed Santal’s balancing point.”
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Thanks, will edit!