"We know three things of that night. The first is that they spared no one. Every Ascommani they found, they knocked dead. How old they were or how young they were didn't matter. They'd been exposed to the bad star's magic, and every scrap of it needed to be erased. If it weren't for two wyrmships at sea, delayed by a storm, there'd have been no Ascommani left at the end of that night."
"The second," he continues, "is that they burned the aett to the ground to burn away every trace of the bad omen's taint."
Aleifr pauses briefly. The bartender's arrived with his refill.
"The last is that there was one wyrmship that wasn't accounted for among the burned wrecks."
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"We know three things of that night. The first is that they spared no one. Every Ascommani they found, they knocked dead. How old they were or how young they were didn't matter. They'd been exposed to the bad star's magic, and every scrap of it needed to be erased. If it weren't for two wyrmships at sea, delayed by a storm, there'd have been no Ascommani left at the end of that night."
"The second," he continues, "is that they burned the aett to the ground to burn away every trace of the bad omen's taint."
Aleifr pauses briefly. The bartender's arrived with his refill.
"The last is that there was one wyrmship that wasn't accounted for among the burned wrecks."