Moo Went The Cow

Corbie nodded at his explanation. "That makes sense. I couldn't imagine that a coat your color was such a common thing here, but I hadn't done much travelling until now so I wasn't certain. Tornach was already old when he found me, so we didn't do much travelling then, for his health. And he had so much to teach me in so little time, that we did not want to spend wastefully. He... passed during the Long Night." While she had been expecting him to pass anyway, and he had gone off alone with the intention of sparing her that, his death from the disease that had stalked the Long Night, rather than the disease that had already ravaged him, had been something of a shock.