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This book is an excerpt fromDreamlode , which is copyright © 2004 byJohn Meaney , all rights
reserved.


“A Bitter Shade of Blindsight” copyright © 1996 by John Meaney, first published in Interzone, August
1996.


DreamlodeISBN: 1-931305-86-2



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A Bitter Shade of Blindsight
John Meaney
Dreamlode, by John Meaney
Scorpius Digital Publishing Catalog
A Bitter Shade Of Blindsight
TWO HUNDRED DAYSand sleepless nights after we burned the children, I led a different kind of
Chantway, a new kind of tale. Black space strung with silver stars like pearls, and hanging there, like a
baleful eye, the scull-gate’s golden frame. I could not show the tachyon split, not literally; instead, I
caused a maelstrom of chaotic colours like the worst peyote nightmare to spill across the hogan’s interior.
And I showed Balance, an emerald world which glowed with promise, and then…

Trembling, I cut the holoprojector. The hogan’s interior remained dim, but green pre-dawn light streaked
the patch of sky that hung above the smoke-hole at the ceiling’s apex, casting a pale eldritch light across
the proud faces of the elders of my clan. My maternal aunt, Josephine Begay, or Grey Woman, looked at
me, and in the strange light her eyes were deep dark pits, seeing deep into my spirit and surely knowing
me for the evil thing I was, or had become.

All night I had spoken, sometimes chanting, sometimes singing, but I had not revealed the worst of what
we’d done, of what I had done, on the world we called Balance. I knew, suddenly, that this was not the
place for expiation, for the restoration of harmony.