I shall hope, for our sake as well as for those who follow the Ioduanese faiths, that it isn't so.

[which isn't the same as saying he does not believe in the possibility; he does. But he knows only too well what it is like to have the fundament of one's world compromised. He wouldn't see that happen to the citizens of the Alliance unless these suspicions were proven true.]

How will you search for more clues?