Scratch that, she had passed tired several hours ago, before the Alliance bombardment scarred the coast with smouldering craters, long before the Escadrille had taken wing. Talent for saying pretty things, for writing winged verses that soared like larks to heaven! Silver nickered uneasily, as if he too distrusted the woods. The world-wide magnetic field disaster of the last decades of that century did more than herald a new Dark Age—it erased the literature and history of the world, even as the accompanying geological disruptions obliterated cities and landmarks. Finally, when the water mirror lit up again, everyone stood up straight and focused their gazes.
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