"The flame is what Heaven shows. The White is what hears. A sign nobody witnesses is a sign lost — and that is why, for seventy-seven years, there has not been one hour without someone standing before the candles." — Rule of the White Vigil, first article
Three thousand women. Four to six years each. One for every hundred thousand people on the continent.
This is the mechanism the rest of the world assumes and never explains. The Clerical Order knows what it knows because these women listen, and every single thing the Order knows cost months of one of their lives.
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