The Door Into Shadow

"What was it you said?" Segnbora said, thinking back to the old Hold in the Waste, and the night her sleep was inter-rupted. " 'There was blood on the Moon, and the mountain was falling'—?"

Dog-tired as he was, Herewiss's eyes glittered with the thought that his true-dream might not prove as disastrous as he had believed, particularly for the man who stood beside him. "Got it right, didn't I?"

Twelve
She nodded, put an arm out and was unsurprised to find Lang there, wary ofSkadhwe but ready to support her. "Only one problem, prince—" "What's that?"
She grinned. "After this, people are going to say you'll do anything to avoid a fight. ."
Laughter in death's shadow fools no one who understands death.
But if you're moved to it, be assured that the Goddess will smile at the joke.

— found scratched on the wall in the dungeon of the King of Steldin, area 1200 p.a.d.

"I hate — letting them think they're driving us," Herewiss said between gasps. "But it's better this way."