Because of the new gods, the stones thought with sorrow. They didn’t understand. No one understood the alien stones at the place’s heart. Alien stones? The fourth moon. Now dead. Now fallen. With stone that is not quite stone. And when gods came here … Stone went haywire, vibrating at insane speed. She saw people sink into it. She saw destruction. Terror. A landscape broken by the hand of Honor himself. Why had he destroyed this city? Had it been because they’d dared use Surges?
