Something happened later, when Ted threw away a few lives to please himself and the sun god, but it wasn't what he would have wanted it to be.
He received information about a famine that plagued the neighboring nations. While it was delightful to know that other people were doing so much worse, Ted feared two things. One was a humanitarian intervention from Rudderland that would leave the Society with much less support than promised. The other was the famine spreading all the way to Rudderland.
