Some historians say that the na-Emperor Flaming Arrow"s campaign against the bandits in 9318 was revenge for the murder of the Matriarch Bubbling Water. Other historians refute this point. In their view, no one knew her real murderer until five years after the act. Flaming Arrow, they conclude, would have warred on the bandits regardless of her death. All we really know is that shortly after Bubbling Water"s murder, Flaming Arrow descended upon the Windy Mountains like a plague.—The Fall of the Swords, by Keeping Track. The Fall of the SwordsThe Colonel Sectathon Probing Gaze watched the ceremony begin from the upper tiers of the coliseum. During the confusion of last-minute preparations, he took a moment to look around. Women outnumbered men nearly two to one. Beneath the obvious grief o

