It's been more than thirty years since the wolf and the winter cold. And now, as then, it is not fear that grips Andyman, only restlessness. A heightened sense of things. The seaborn breeze, coolly, kissing the sweat at his chest and neck. Gulls cawing, complaining, even as they feast on the thousands of floating dead. The steady breathing of the Brotherhood Warriors at his back, ready to die for him without a moment's pause. Everyone of them ready, to die.
