True. Although even if we'd immediately approached the Highest One... We wouldn't have been able to negotiate with him, but I think we'd have understood how rotten he was much sooner. And if the one doing negotiations was supernaturally sensitive, how different he felt from the people of Giva.

But... aside from him and Cheruvia, most people we've encountered with an orb haven't been that bad. I wonder if it's just that there aren't many rotten people, or that orbs generally have other criteria for their preferred wielders.

[Like being massively magically powerful?]