Why wouldn't they be there? The question is howled in the back of his mind. If it were truly destroyed, then why was he spared? What does it mean that he remembers it happening, but only in such abstract terms?

Truthfully, if their roles were reversed, Estinien would be asking the same thing. As it is, however, he can't quite contain the anger that strums at his heart.

"Then why would we be spared?" he demands. "We, above all others?"