MATTIN IS MORE DIFFICULT TO get information from than S?ren anticipated, and with each moment that passes, I can feel his frustration grow. My own patience is wearing thin, and Dragonsbane doesn’t even bother trying to mask her irritation as she paces the deck in front of him. A few of the crew members who were willing to talk were taken belowdecks, so that the information they provided could be corroborated, but many Kalovaxian men are still here, kneeling before their Astrean captors with the blades of knives pressing against their necks.
“Has the Kaiser’s search party already returned to Astrea?” S?ren asks for what must be the fifth time.
Again, Mattin shrugs as much as he can with his wrists bound tight behind his back. Though he volunteered, the jeers of his shipmates are giving hi
