[The uncertain nature of time here is rather alarming.]
"Nobody ever stopped telling a story just because it was superstition!" Sasha observes.
On the farmer's behalf, Ankat says, "You know there used to be a meditation center, in the wetlands nearby? The people there were killed, in some skirmish or other, and the land's too boggy to grow anything useful, so it was basically abandoned. But on nights when none of the moons are up, you can see red lights going back and forth across the causeway. Like pilgrims' lanterns, but there aren't any pilgrims, at least not any living ones."
Re: on the nature of dragons
Date: 2018-10-25 10:14 pm (UTC)"Nobody ever stopped telling a story just because it was superstition!" Sasha observes.
On the farmer's behalf, Ankat says, "You know there used to be a meditation center, in the wetlands nearby? The people there were killed, in some skirmish or other, and the land's too boggy to grow anything useful, so it was basically abandoned. But on nights when none of the moons are up, you can see red lights going back and forth across the causeway. Like pilgrims' lanterns, but there aren't any pilgrims, at least not any living ones."