I know we're several episodes past, but my mind keeps circling back to that cold open scene in the Falconer's Rebellion. All those mercenaries and rebels ducking into the trench, carrying other adults out of danger. Even the older adolescent on the scene, Tunk, had Loza Blade at his back, shouldering him to cover.
The only one left behind is Azune, fifteen years old, a twig of a boy not even finished growing. A boy who was already left to claw his way back from the edge of death by himself as Teor scrambled to patch Kattigan back together. And when Azune wakes, what does he get to see?
All of his comrades--the men and women his own father peddled him to--have retreated. Nobody stopped for him. He's bleeding into the dirt alone.
And a flock of wyverns is descending on the battlefield.
I really hope we return to this flashback and learn how it was that Azune lived. Who or what saved him. Because right now it's left in a limbo of unknowns--apart from the line Azune/Luis lets slip at Falcon's Rest.
"I want to remember everything about them, the good, the bad, the ugly, the injuries that they've caused, inadvertently. I want to remember the entire story of who they are. I speak their names, those five that just left, over and over again in a whisper to myself. I wonder if they, if they'll forget me while they're gone."