"No freaking way!" the bald man named Doug widened his eyes but also smiled broadly as if they had just found a big chunk of diamond.
"Hold on a sec!" said the skinny guy. "Are we talking about the Asurry?"
La-Rhuan grinned as she pointed at the sleeping Aira.
"But they are extinct!" said the thin man as he glanced at Brutus. "Right?"
"That's true," Brutus replied. "Just like the other three great lands, the Southeast was burned to the ground by imperial soldiers and riders. And the seven major tribes and fourteen minor tribes that lived there were also wiped out."
"See! See!" said the skinny man. "So, she's definitely not an Asurry!"
"But!" Brutus continued quickly. "We don't know for sure, at the time of the massacre, whether any of them survived or not, do we?"
"And there might have been one or two who were in another region when it happened!" La-Rhuan said.
