Neither do I object to waiting for his inevitability to claim his life. My concern becomes: do either of these successors have the wit and strength to handle what's coming? What's already crept in, ages ago, when the burnt remnants of those who died in earlier wars roam their private hunting grounds, and the necromancer's district shows as chattel the kind of dead which Unhalad claimed. Not the same, they don't hunger, but the awkwardness of them. Their curse is shared in some form.

Whatever the politician's games, or the witches' considerations, what will become of the people here?