Pheasant Bone Chokes Nobleman

FASTHELD - Cygony Zahir, an occasionally disgraced nobleman, choked to death on a pheasant bone in the Lightholder Tavern. Witnesses said he was in the midst of telling the story (for the fourth time that night) of how he bedded the former Dianna Lomasa, now ex-wife of Adaer Kahar, and how Adaer Kahar had set his own arm on fire to try to convince the Church of True Light that Cygony Zahir had tried to immolate him with magic - and then Zahir swallowed the bone, which got lodged in his windpipe and remained jammed until he suffocated.

"Shame it 'appened and all that," said Solas Creek, proprietor of the Lightholder Tavern, "but it might've gone different if 'e'd taken time to chew the food instead of everyone's ears, if ya catch my meanin'."