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"Pat Hodgell is one of the original voices and great talents of our field and I couldn't be happier to see
her work back in print once more, with at least a fourth novel scheduled to appear in the future. If you're
new to her work, get comfortable and allow a master storyteller to take you in hand."—Charles de Lint




HEARTS OF WOVEN
SHADOW
An introduction to "Hearts of Woven Shadow,"
"Lost Knots," and "Among the Dead"


Epic fantasies usually beginin medias res, in the middle of things. Consider, for example, how much
history comes before we meet Frodo Baggins inThe Lord of the Rings, and I'm not just talking about its
prequel,The Hobbit. The Silmarillion will give you a better idea. In this eon-long context, the One Ring
can be seen as merely a loose end that must be tidied up before it and its master can destroy all of
Middle-earth, smashing sundry lives in the process including those of various innocent hobbits.

This pattern runs through much of modern fantasy. The past is a looming shadow that shapes the present
and threatens the future. Characters thus totter between light and dark, between simple, everyday life and
cosmic destruction, on a scale that sometimes boggles the mind even of their creator.

To lower our discourse a notch, I have always been aware that certain events in the past shape my
heroine Jame's life and world. Gerridon's fall is perhaps the most dramatic instance—all the more so
because, like Sauron, Gerridon is still active behind the scenes some three thousand years later. In fact,
he is Jame's uncle because his sister-consort, Jamethiel Dream-Weaver, is Jame's mother. How (and
why) that happened is central to Jame's story. It also matters, of course, to her twin brother Torisen.
They and one other are the innocents in my story, at least so far.

I knew many of the details before I sat down to write the following three stories, which appear here for
the first time anywhere. However, I hadn't thought out all the ramifications. The time-line came as a
surprise. So did Ganth Gray Lord, Jame and Tori's father. Is he also an innocent?

You decide.


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