...hmmm? Ehhhh, little nephew. Who's to say? Years now. With some sick or the other. Or the seas. Or the land.
( He enumerates reasons less as if they might have truly caused the death of his people, then perhaps as if any one of them could be equally valid. He knows the ways in which the elements and a cruel, mischievous fate can lead to hurts.
Men lose families to whim and madness. It is known. )
It matters much? What's done is done. The water's eaten them. And they won't be rising to serve no woman, eh? Least if she were a queen. But she's some rotten luck.
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...hmmm? Ehhhh, little nephew. Who's to say? Years now. With some sick or the other. Or the seas. Or the land.
( He enumerates reasons less as if they might have truly caused the death of his people, then perhaps as if any one of them could be equally valid. He knows the ways in which the elements and a cruel, mischievous fate can lead to hurts.
Men lose families to whim and madness. It is known. )
It matters much? What's done is done. The water's eaten them. And they won't be rising to serve no woman, eh? Least if she were a queen. But she's some rotten luck.