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The Seventh Chronicle of the Black Company

SHE IS THE DARKNESS

GLEN COOK



BOOK Two

OF GLITTERING STONE







In memoriam

Tracy Zellich, who soldiered on. Your place in the Annals is
assured.





The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and
barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone.
Even shadows are afraid.



The scars of cataclysm disfigure a plain that has known only an
age of dark perfection, A jagged fissure lies like a lightning slash
across its face. Nowhere is that fissure so wide that a child could
not step across but it seems bottomless. Trailers of mist drift forth.
Some bear a hint of color. Any color clashes with the thousand
blacks and greys.



At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown,
older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed
across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great
deep slow beat like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the
olden silence.