Chapter 6Gulda looked uncertainly at Andawyr. The little man nodded and gestured her to begin.
A brief look of pain passed over Gulda’s face and, fiddling nervously with her stick, she glanced awkwardly about the room as if looking for something that might tell her where to start her tale.
‘The war of the First Coming was unbelievably long, Hawklan,’ she began at last. ‘And it was fought on many levels and between many different peoples in many different ways. Some, mostly the battles of men, we know a great deal about. Some, involving other than men, like the Alphraan and the Mandrassni, we know a little of. Others, like the terrible cloud wars of the Drienvolk, the vengeance of the great ocean mammals, we know mainly by repute — by legend. Ethriss rarely spoke of them. “All must be won
