“A sunken ward? Never heard of it. One big string of lies from the Sector to get us all rightly scared before they come down to chop us all up and take us back to wherever it is that they take people. Yep, you’re better off looking for those worms or whatever they are. Maybe snakes? I don’t know, the things that the Sector says not to approach.”

            “You mean the Vven?”

            “Yeah, Vhenn, Renn, whatever. The ugly bastards that supposedly eat a whole ward’s heart in a minute. Doesn’t really matter what you call them. Same to me. Just another story. No evidence. Why, you ought to listen to what… ”