Great, now Sevar has started using inscrutable Laws to produce numbers out of nowhere. Maillol isn't so much afraid to ask, as instinctively knowing that nothing good will happen to him if he does.
"Can you use that Law to do anything better than... staring at people it happened to, and didn't happen to, and trying to guess who it'll happen to next? That's a lot of fourth-circles... I'd say go to third-circle or second-circle, where we can afford to lose numbers like that if we get stronger fifth-circles out of it later... it's just, at some point you go down low enough that you've got to worry they'll actually snap in front of Keltham."
"We could use third-circles to monitor candidates when they're not around Keltham. We can use clerics who can run Detect Desires and Detect Anxieties to catch immediate major snaps."
"I suppose if the Project bears fruit, at some point we'll be exposing candidates to whatever the fuck this is at first-circle, before we hand out Keltham's cheap headbands to wizard students. I'm just wincing about how expensive this sounds for Cheliax in the short term."