End Notes
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‘Sir? Sir! Are you awake, sir?’
Aysun opened his eyes to find bare earth two inches from his face. A hand was shaking him, hard, and the voice - Ven’s voice, he realised - shouted directly in his ear. Even then he had trouble hearing the lad over the ear-splitting noise of destruction, shrieking draykoni and wailing alarms.
‘I’m alive,’ Aysun grunted, and Ven mercifully ceased his attempts to shake him to pieces. He tried to sit up, but his back protested forcibly. A curse escaped his lips as he eased himself back to the ground.
He lay still for a moment, trying to assess the damage. His body hurt almost everywhere, especially his back, but he didn’t think anything was
