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’Gossip Indeed’

’This is what you wanted to show me, then? This … hole?’

Bauchelain raised an eyebrow ’Not precisely This hole is but the entrance We intend to visit the Jaghut tomb that lies below it’

’Oponn’s blessing to you, then,’ Gruntle said, turning away

’I iine,’ the e you to accoe all he likes,’ the captain replied ’I wasn’t contracted to sink in a pool ofcovered in lanced back at hiure of speech, Bauchelain Apologies if you ain and made his way towards the trail Then he stopped ’You wanted to see Moon’s Spawn, sirs?’ He pointed

Like a towering black cloud, the basalt fortress stood just above the south horizon

Boots crunched on the ragged gravel, and Gruntle found hi between the twomountain

’Scale,’ Bauchelain muttered, ’is difficult to deteruess a league, h for my tastes I’ve walked its shadow in Darujhistan -- hard not to for a while there -- and believe ’

’I i here?’

Gruntle shrugged ’See southeast-’

’Hence the tilt’

’No It was daes of the Malazan Ees’

’They died for it Most of thee Moon’s Spawn, its lord re a hole in a fence before getting obliterated by the ht ahead’