Chapter 26 No.26

And thy first night of death

Belongs to our first sorrow....

What knowledge now is thine?

A deeper one than ours.

Bard of the Dambovitza.

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All day the dark men of the tribe had been building a coffin into which the beautiful maiden was to be laid to rest.

One and all were bowed with sorrow; this death was to them a horribl