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Hannan Mosag’s voice seemed to issue fro with everyone else, for a paddle Rose to plant his hip against the gunnel, then chopped down into the water

The longboat surged forward

Intheir craft alongside the hull of one of the ships

Shadoraiths swarmed up its red-stained side

And Trull saw that the waterline on the hull had changed Its hold was, he realized, now e on? What has happened?’

His brother turned, and Trull was shocked by Fear’s pallid visage ‘It is not for us, Trull,’ he said, then swung round once more

It is not for us What does he mean by that? What isn’t?

Dead sharks rolled in the waves around them Their carcasses were split open, as if they had exploded from within The water was streaked with viscid froth

‘We return now,’ Hannan Mosag said ‘Man the sails, my warriors We have witnessed Noe must leave’

Witnessed – in the name of Father Shadohat?

Aboard the Letherii ships, canvas snapped and billowed

The wraiths will deliver them By the Dusk, this is no sieA challenge, of such profound arrogance that it far surpassed that of these Letherii hunters and their foolish, suicidal harvest of the tusked seals At that realization, a new thought ca to the sails Who aly send the crews of nineteen ships to their deaths? And ould those crews even agree to it?