Kioko wasn't sure if they were supposed to respond and, if so, what to say. She looked to Ark, but he was silent, his face unreadable.

Malick went on, "It is no matter, for neither of you children knew him in the days before. Ark, perhaps, caught glimpses of his beautiful fury, but even he wasn't there, in the old world, to see Jorick alight with youthful anger, desperate to quench the flame of rage with his enemy's blood." He trailed away, lost to memory, then snapped back to ...