“Pity,” Colonel Aetos says. “We’ve had the scribes on it since Threshing, and the only reference they can find in the Archives about the power of feathertails is hundreds of years old, which is funny because I remember your father doing a bit of research about the second Krovlan uprising, and he mentioned something about feathertails, but we can’t seem to find that tome.” He scratches his forehead. Mom looks at me with expectation, as though to ask me without actually asking. “I don’t believe he finished his research on that particular historical event before he died, Colonel Aetos. I couldn’t
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