While the warlords fought over the throne, Kabani rebuilt the docks.
Gorath took his own life. Kabani reportedly wept for him. “A lion does not celebrate the death of a snake,” she said. “It mourns that the snake could not become a dragon.”
Her enemy, the tyrant Gorath the Unburnt, marched on her capital with 60,000 men. As they crossed the drought-flat plain, they found the wells not dry, but filled with honey and jasmine petals. They found the villages empty, but the ovens still warm with bread.