Jake had always been suspicious, but intuitively he had fairly overestimated the Oracle's accomplishments, believing him to be truly capable of duplicating the blood and bloodline of other people. The concept of drawing blood at the source was by far the most implausible and a possibility he hardly dared to explore.
It did, however, give a much clearer understanding of the notion of "special rewards. Because they were that special.
They were outside the realm of normal rewards and had to meet specific conditions. Now Jake wondered if he would have gotten those special rewards if Lucia and Gerulf had refused to donate blood.
The princess had described a kind of hypnosis. Perhaps it was not resistable. If the Digestors hadn't invaded their planet, maybe something would have been done afterwards to erase their memories or something along those lines?
There were so many possibilities.
