Waves

Some believed crows to be the harbingers of disaster, but everyone could agree that disastrous news would appear like them, swiftly and unexpectedly.

In just a short two days, news of Estrada's death reached every major human country's spy agency. At almost the exact same time, news that the Holy Church had declared Estrada to be a heretic also arrived.

The whole world was astonished, and then… the whole world mourned.