"What does that monster want this time?" I heard Kwesser ask from behind me, "Have we not already granted him everything he wished for?"
"He does not wish anything of us," my brother said nervously, "The gray firebird brought a message from the oracle saying that we should prepare for war. The Others are coming to test us once more."
Gasps echoed through the room and many people began to wail in terror and anger over the news. Our people have been to war more than ten times over the past fifty years and we just barely managed to win each time because our civilization was more advanced than those we fought against. But we did not come out of these fights unscathed. We lost warriors and years of peace that would have led to great advancement for our people.
