Aystar

Aystar, who was nine years old, and her ten-year old brother Steth were both Malazan orphans. They were members of Minala's Company of Shadow, which had been tasked by Shadowthrone to protect the T'lan Imass First Throne.House of Chains, Chapter 23, US TPB p.581The Bonehunters, Chapter 24, US HC p.775
==In The Bonehunters==
Although Aystar and Steth had been trained with the other children of the Company of Shadow and were properly armed and armoured, Minala considered them both still to be too young to participate in any actual fighting. Yet both were full of zeal to do so. In the meanwhile, they had a game they were fond of--trying to sneak up on their favourite T'lan Imass, Onrack the Broken, as he stood guarding the entry to the chamber of the First Throne. They never won the game because the undead Onrack could always hear them breathing as they tried to approach him silently.
During a long lull between attacks, they both hung around after being detected by Onrack, with Aystar hugging the T'lan Imass around his waist while Steth climbed onto a boulder that provided a good view down the passage. Onrack warned the boy that he was too exposed in that position. This, unfortunately, proved to be all too true, as Steth was almost immediately struck by an arrow in the side of his head which killed him instantly. Aystar, shocked, screamed that Steth had been killed, then fled back down the passage, alerting Minala and the other defenders of the upcoming attack, which proved to be a large combined force of Tiste Edur warriors and Letherii soldiers.The Bonehunters, Chapter 24, US HC p.775-776
==In Reaper's Gale==
Aystar proved to be one of the very few children of the Company of Shadow to survive until Minala and the rest were finally returned - after what had proved to be the final attack on the First Throne - to the Shadow Realm. Aystar did her best to recover from the death of Steth, in particular, but also from the deaths of the others as well.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 8, US TPB p.189/192
==Notes and references==
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