CHAPTER 13.2

  International News Headlines on August 9, 1909

  Today In Orbit:

  DOMREMY REPORTS MASS MURDER IN HELIKA: 1537 DEAD

  The Persian Pundit:

  HELIKAN GENOCIDE STORY IS LIKELY RUBBISH

  The Soothsayer:

  EMPIRE SILENT ABOUT WORST ANTI-REFLECTIVISM INCIDENT IN DECADES

  Sentience Watch International:

  REFLECTIVE TRAGEDY INSIGNIFICANT COMPARED TO GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS ATROCITIES IN HELIKA

  The Alarmist:

  TOP HEALERS SUGGEST DEADLY NEW MAGICAL DISEASE ‘WHITE DEATH’ BEHIND SUDDEN DEATHS

  The Sceptic:

  THE HELIKAN EMERGENCY: CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY OR COMPASSIONATE QUARANTINE?

  Aryan Mixed Mages:

  SERIOUSLY, WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WHITE EMPIRE?

  The Seraphic

  DOMREMY MAY CONVENE 201ST PEOPLESMEET

  Medical Mirror:

  BLOOD BUREAU CHIEF CAUGHT BETWEEN ROCK AND HARD PLACE

  The Tribal Tribune:

  AMERICA SUPPORTS DOMREMIN THRONE’S CALLS FOR INTERNATIONALLY MANDATED PROBE

  The Mundane Herald:

  THE SLOW APOCALYPSE: VOIDMARK MAY HAVE SPAWNED A HOST OF UNKNOWN DISEASES

  Apotheosis:

  FUTURE BLEAK FOR BLOOD CENSUS: BILATERAL COOPERATIONS UNTENABLE

  The Doomsday Gazette:

  HEL-DOM ALPINE BORDER ACTIVITIES INTENSIFY

  King’s League Special:

  TRAGEDY MAY SEE THE WHITE EMPIRE EXPELLED FROM THE LEAGUE IF FOUL PLAY VERIFIED