Spoiler space How is Paarfi able to relate the conversation between the gods in the Halls of Judgment where they are discussing the fate of the Orb, when no humans were around? I have a couple speculations: 1. There's more to Paarfi than we thought. Maybe *he's* been there and back. I'd give a lot to hear that story. 2. Devera was there and she told someone who told Paarfi. Maybe she told Paarfi. I'd give a lot to hear that conversation too! In answer to some other speculations on another thread, about how the Orb was changed, the gods discuss it in this passage, but we don't know what they concluded or what they finally did. I assumed that they, or one of them, had gone ahead and fine-tuned it, with or without the consent of the other gods. Rachel