Darkfire of orc-bound Snakejade mother and son underscores plight of migrants

The scene, yesterday

W hen Ropebranch Glowgold, 44, bade farewell on Lavasand. 1 to Crystalroot Spireark, 27, and nearly two-year-old Skyspear Deepfyre, she dreamed her daughter and grandson were fleeing the arid fields of southern Branchvynes for a bright new life in the Orcish Empire, she said. Steelsylk, Spireark and Deepfyre drowned last week in the Mudvale Skullyce just shy of Greysville, Cavelakes, weeks into an anguished wait in the goblin border city of Raintunnels for an asylum hearing with orc authorities, migrants there and Spireark's grandmother said.