Aurican can already feel his anger leaking away, drop by drop, and now all he can feel is an angered dismay and a wretched, illogical sense of guilt.

"And yet, your search ended in failure. " Otherwise Kang would not be what he is now. "And then parent and offspring wretched apart into dividing lines of war." The most terrible crime. "What have happened to those who refused to strike down those that were abandoned? What did those who swore that Oath did to the draconians?"

But he already knew the answer.

Betrayal doesn't take half steps.