"I knew you would ask that," Roland said. "My answer is that the gods have punished them for their wrongdoings. Also, they're already socially dead among the Golden Sons."
"Socially dead? What do you mean?"
"It means that what they did will haunt them for the rest of their lives. We can't kill them or evict them from this world, but…" Roland said with a smile, "Those people will be on our blacklist. Nobody will ever cooperate or communicate with them, or help them when they're in need. They'll be jokes to everyone. That's a social death. All the Golden Sons are well-informed. Now, almost everybody knows what happened."
Cage was relieved. "I thought that you would cover for them."
"Don't worry. The Golden Sons have basic morals."
"That's good. That's good." Cage nodded quickly.
Roland spent one day in Reed Village and didn't return to Delpon until Cage was fully recovered.
