for what else could it be or would it be ... or how else would they , could they have spoken if they had spoken ? ... it was common thought : one sent from among usnot blasphemy , not sacrilege , not profanityout here : after surviving the trial by storm , after the savage bout with deaths hungering mouththis was the oblation , the offering , the satisfactionand within frantzs mind there was never a thought except that it is fitting .