"The Machine itself? It's not what I expected to hear," he admitted. It seemed more likely to be the plan of a single person, rather than the machine itself. That, and the idea that it would be a machine's idea? Well, the ancient Macedonian thought it was surely impossible.

"Then the people that die here, under--" he paused to wave his hand at the arena dismissively. "--under normal circumstances, their blood goes to the machine? It would explain why nothing like this has occurred before, or at least as far as I know."

He sat back again, discontent by the idea. Science was foreign to him, and religion only a part of magic. He would have to ask Waver to help him with the idea.