Sotha Sil and the Scribs Young Sotha Sil, while playing in the egg mines, saw a number of scribs in a deep shaft, and he began to cast stones upon them, snickering as they skittered and scattered, until one of the scribs, lifting its head up in agony, cried out to Sotha Sil: "Please, please, have mercy, little boy, for what is sport to you is suffering and death to us." And so Sotha Sil discovered that the idle of amusements of one may be the solemn tortures of another. Lord Vivec and the Contentious Beasts The Boiled Kagouti The Dubious Healer The Guar and the Mudcrabs The Wounded Netch