Contents

Acknowledgments

What Has Gone Before

Prologue “my heart has rooms”

1. Mother’s Son

2. Gathering Defenses

3. In Spite of Her

4. Malice

5. The Cost of Love and Despair

Part One “chosen for this desecration”

1. “I am content”

2. Caesure

3. In the Rubble

4. Old Friends

5. Distraction

6. The Despiser’s Guidance

7. Companions in Flight

8. Into the Mountains

9. Scion of Stone

10. Aided by Ur-Viles

11. Hints

12. The Verge of Wandering

Part Two “the only form of innocence”

1. Spent Enmity

2. Dangerous Choices

3. The Will of the Ranyhyn

4. Heedless in Rain

5. Against Time

6. The Staff of Law

7. Aid and Betrayal

8. “Contrive their salvation”

9. Pursuit

10. Troubled Sanctuary

11. The Masters of the Land

12. Find Me

Glossary