There is that, Jigano admitted, though his voice was gentle. Rory had seen him at his worst during the Blight and had chosen to let Jigano stay in his life. He hoped that Abasi would also find the strength of heart to look past the pain and darkness to the good man that Loren could be, when his dark moods weren't tearing him apart.
The fact that they measured their seasons as much by catastrophe as by name wasn't lost on Jigano, and the dragon snorted softly in weary amusement - and more than a little resignation. Hmmm. Last Longheat... that would have been the Blight appearing in the Greatwood, and Safrin being struck with it. I was with Amalia and Deimos in the basement of the Spire, trying to save an ancient creature, a Tulmhainar... He sighed, a great gust of chill air as he began to angle downwards towards the peaks that they were rapidly approaching. We failed in that, too. But Amalia called on Safrin for aid, and Safrin responded. She's the one that blasted that hole down through the center of the Spire, but doing so... entering the Spire, where the old gods aren't supposed to go... that's what caused the goddess to become infected with the blight, we think. And not long after, Ronin followed. And then the rest of us. And Loren knew what happened after that, returning on the heels of the blight's emergence and doing what he could to help until the Gods themselves could be stirred to lend a hand.
The fact that they measured their seasons as much by catastrophe as by name wasn't lost on Jigano, and the dragon snorted softly in weary amusement - and more than a little resignation. Hmmm. Last Longheat... that would have been the Blight appearing in the Greatwood, and Safrin being struck with it. I was with Amalia and Deimos in the basement of the Spire, trying to save an ancient creature, a Tulmhainar... He sighed, a great gust of chill air as he began to angle downwards towards the peaks that they were rapidly approaching. We failed in that, too. But Amalia called on Safrin for aid, and Safrin responded. She's the one that blasted that hole down through the center of the Spire, but doing so... entering the Spire, where the old gods aren't supposed to go... that's what caused the goddess to become infected with the blight, we think. And not long after, Ronin followed. And then the rest of us. And Loren knew what happened after that, returning on the heels of the blight's emergence and doing what he could to help until the Gods themselves could be stirred to lend a hand.
