What is that?’ ‘The place where Coltaine and the Seventh went down. The dogs were the only survivors. Coltaine guided thirty thousand refugees from Hissar to Aren. It was impossible, but that’s what he did. He saved those ungrateful bastards and his reward was to get butchered not five hundred paces from the city’s gate. No-one helped him, Trell.’ The corporal’s eyes searched Mappo’s. ‘Can you imagine that?’
