Yes it's best not to anger those who have power over us [He frowned.] Except when it is best. Sometimes you have to defy them. [But in doing so you had to accept that they would probably kill you. But it was necessary sometimes even if only to prove that you still could.]

I think these weird... effects [Experiments, games, accidents, with no motive he doesn't know what to call them] Are connected to the islands falling and the Story Teller said they didn't have anything to do with what happened up there, they... they don't know how the rock thinks.