Nearer to the water pink-footed geese and white-faced coots paraded in the groves of rhus and bamboo.

Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.

They likewise believed that he, having a full Sway and Command over the Water, had Power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it […]

It's still only on the 5-turn timer if you're hit by a monster-thrown egg, though, as opposed to the instadeath from elementary physics if you throw one upwards yourself.