 All of the following terms describe the people's reaction to the destruction of the Maternite EXCEPT for:
It was a day soft and clear; a day accepted by the young, cherished by we old. I do not, of course, believe in the gods per se; still there is a grandeur in the very stones that transcends their human sculptors, and it is no wonder to me that many cling tenaciously, and ignorantly, to the old religion. In whose names Man killed and plundered, while struggling up. Saddened, but resigned and content to live in peace with his knowledge and his power. "Sias," they were saying, "the Maternite's gone." Then turned to me, and said calmly, "The watcher at the Maternite Machine, it appears, has been drunk. Everything has evaporated in Maternite. A man my age does not hurry in the heat of the midday sun—maddugs nenglishmin go out in the midday sun, as the ancients say, although I often wonder why—but Xeon and Melia ran all the way down to the city. They were aware that they stood in the midst of an unprecedented happening; indeed, an emergency. They were created so long ago, indeed, that the ignorant believe them to have been constructed by the gods themselves. Indeed, the watcher is more a tradition than a necessity. I hastened to the City Hall and found the Conclave assembled, waiting for me to bring them to order. They accompanied me past the marble pillars into the cool recesses of the Hall, then seated themselves on the floor as I took my place by the great table.
 accusatory
 perplexed  panicked  obtuse  accusatory