The Ascendancy Veil
“‘But let us not tie all our threads to a single revelation. There is much we do not understand yet.’ ‘But this gives us hope, surely?’ Yugi said. ‘The feya-kori have a limit, a weakness.’ ‘You do not yet see the grander scale,’ Cailin replied. ‘It is not only Axekami that the Weavers are choking. There are pall-pits in various stages of completion in Tchamaska, Maxachta and Barask. More are being built on the north side of Axekami, and in Hanzean to the west.’ A chill wind off the lake rippled ...through the grass and hissed through the trees. ‘These two feya-kori are only the first. The Weavers will bring more. We cannot stand against them.’ Yugi sighed and rubbed at his eye. ‘Gods, Cailin, does it get any worse?’ ‘Oh yes,’ she said. ‘Two nights ago, the feya-kori left Axekami again.’ The fortified town of Zila had seen its fair share of conflict. Since the time it was built over a thousand years ago it had weathered assaults from the native Ugati, from renegade warlords, and from the Empire itself; and still it stood, grim and dark upon a steep hill to the south of the River Zan.MoreLess
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