We landed on the edge of the circle and gazed at the place in silence. Another collection of lifeless draykon bones, a perfect skeleton, whole and undisturbed. There was not a flicker of amasku discernible, not only within the corpse itself but also the whole of the lifeless circle.
So close to Orlind. It was the clearest link we have yet discovered between the dead ones of our kind and the beleaguered island… perhaps I had been hoping that they were not related, that the troubled and troublesome Library was not responsible for yet more death. No such luck.
I thought back to our first conversation about this, before everything had become so much more complicated.
What could drain the life out of something like this? I had asked that of Pense, and he had not known.
The power required to
