" The three marched in the center of the twelve soldiers, an angry, noisome crowd following on all sides. Their curses and shouts were beginning to lose meaning to Tommy, instead becoming a singular wave of sound that represented the dark, awful place many found themselves in since the black water washed away their normal world. He found himself blamed for crimes he could never have committed. He heard Cannac accused of deeds only the Goddesses could have performed. Most of all, he heard him and Malik called traitors, and Cannac a monster. It was the one consistency amid the hate. "

― David Dalglish , Ravencaller (The Keepers, #2)