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alive and well. Property damage on luarin estates that
winter far exceeded that expected from heavy rains.
Dams collapsed, sweeping away acres of rice fields.
Blackrot invaded grain silos, destroying winter stores.
Bridges fell. Overseers and a few nobles were
murdered. When the Crown sent soldiers to kill the
people of the nearest raka village, as the law required,
the troops found that the inhabitants had vanished.
Many people reported hearing war gongs sounding
from deep within the lowland jungles.
Life for the Balitang family in the highlands of
Lombyn Isle had two sides. One was that of a family
that had just lost its patriarch and had to get through the
winter months before they could return to the capital
city of Rajmuat at the behest of the ruling family.
Duchess Winnamine Balitang took solace from her two
older stepdaughters, Saraiyu and Dovasary, and her
own children, six-year-old Petranne and five-year-old
Elsren. She conducted lessons, had snowball fights, told
stories, and did her best to keep everyone from
screaming with boredom. She also helped train Sarai's
maid, a twenty-three-year-old raka woman named