and I've only got my brittle bones to break the fall
"War is terrible," he says softly. Ascended soldiers are different, not quite so messy when they break, but he's seen enough of the misery to pity the medics. No wonder she seems so capable, if she has lived through that kind of hell.The rest of her story is equal parts curious and disturbing. He wants to ask more, but what's the point if she doesn't know the answers anyway? Much as he despises unsolved mysteries some of them are just that: unsolvable.
"If we tried," he finally says, wandering among the ruins. "It used to be grand, a thriving, bustling city, made from magic and vision. It was just kind of natural for the Acquired to gather here." Carefully he glances around, wishing to avoid looking at direct signs of the last, long night. "But now it seems quite content to remain a bit of a broken skeleton."
Aamu
