Isles of the Emberdark

by Brandon Sanderson

“Might be some remnant of Ambition, and no one knows where Virtuosity is these days. Hell, it could have been Dominion or any number of other Shards that can no longer explain what they did.

Of course, the bones did not reply. He liked that about bones.

“Do…we pay the birds separately?” “Yes,” he said firmly. “Fortunately they work for head scratches and the occasional nut.”