"They caused each other's deaths?!" Robin's voice cracked with shock, his mind spinning.
The old Truth Chosen with the hound-shaped head simply gave a long, resigned sigh and raised his withered shoulders in a slow shrug. "That's what we believe, yes. Toward the end of their time here, tension had built up between them like a storm waiting to break. One of them accused the other—said he'd be the reason for his death, swore vengeance beyond the grave. After that bitter exchange, he vanished into silence. We never saw him again."
He paused, then continued with a haunted look in his half-hidden eyes. "Not long after, the one he'd accused also disappeared without a trace. We suspect—no, we're almost certain—that he betrayed the other before his own end came. He might've exposed his location to someone dangerous, sealing both of their fates in one terrible decision."
