The Road to Mt. Dakun, Rebellion-Held Aviye
Zai
The Nightravens lit a pyre for Sergeant Lorn at midnight.
To Zai, losing Fengri hurt fiercely, and that loss brought with it the pain of losing Sh'zi, Edam, and every Nightraven who'd died under her command.
Together, around the pyre, the Nightravens toasted one of their fallen leaders. Zai was the last to receive the bottle. She almost broke her vow, until she remembered that Sergeant Lorn had always insisted on equal treatment...
Yet this was not an equal situation. Sergeant Lorn hadn't died on a battlefield, fighting the enemy in a battle of equal-minded duty. She'd been shot by a traitor. A piece of rot that had hidden in the roots of the Rebellion, climbing its way along towards some sinister purpose that Zai wished to see ended.
