Malazan Book of the Fallan 01 - Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson

Author:Steven Erikson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 1999-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Book Four

Assassins

I dreamed a coin

with shifting face—

so many youthful visages

so many costly dreams,

and it rolled and rang

’round the gilded rim

of a chalice

made for gems

LIFE OF DREAMS

ILBARES THE HAG

Chapter Eleven

The night held close

as I wandered

my spirit unfooted

to either earth or stone

unraveled from tree

undriven by iron nail

but like the night itself

a thing of air

stripped of light

so I came upon them,

those masons who cut and carved

stone in the night

sighting by stars and battered hand.

“What of the sun?” asked I of them.

“Is not its cloak of revelation

the warmth of reason

in your shaping?”

And one among them answered,

“No soul can withstand

the sun’s bones of light

and reason dims

when darkness falls—

so we shape barrows in the night

for you and your kin.”

“Forgive my interruption, then,” said I.

“The dead never interrupt,” said the mason,

“they but arrive.”

PAUPER’S STONE

DARUJHISTAN

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