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Eric Van Lustbader
THE VEIL OF A THOUSAND TEARS
Book Two of The Pearl


Tor Books by Eric Van Lustbader
The Ring of Five Dragons
The Veil of a Thousand Tears
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.

THE VEIL OF A THOUSAND TEARS Copyright © 2002 Eric Van Lustbader
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Map by Ellisa Mitchell Edited by David G. Hartwell
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Lustbader, Eric.
Veil of a thousand tears / Eric Van Lustbader.—1st ed.
p. cm.—(The pearl; v. 2) "A Tom Doherty Associates book." ISBN 0-312-87236-4 (alk. paper) I. Title.
PS3562.U752 V45 2002 813'.54—dc21

2002019002
First Edition: July 2002
Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

For David, Linda, and Tom
Book One:

SUNKEN GATE
1.


Of the fifteen Spirit Gates, Sunken Gate is the
one in which the spirit lies, turning over
leaves of fortune and the future; it is here
that promise begins, and dreaming ends,
—Utmost Source,
The Five Sacred Books of Miina


1
Breach
2.
 Riane and Giyan were alone in the Library of the Abbey of Warm Current. It was midnight. A
cold wind sighed through thorned sysal trees, and rhythmic pulses rippled through the dense bedrock