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Toc found hi hiasps echoed dully in heavy, stale air He -- he sent od sent me away and now I’ ainst stone Alouder, closer

With a shriek, leathery ar, desperate eainst a flabby, pebble-skinned bosom, Toc found himself in the coes of decoiant, reptilian arround and tore in Toc’s chest His skin was slippery with blood, yet whatever healing sorcery the Seer had gifted to hi, only to have the bones break yet again within the savage embrace of the creature who now held him

The Seer’s voice filled his skull I tired of the others but you I shaft keep alive You are worthy to takeOh, she is mad Mindless with insanity, yet the sparks of need reside within her Such need Beware, or it will devour you, as it did rew so foul that she spat me back out Need, when it overwhelreat corrupter of love, and so it shall corrupt you Your flesh Your un Dear Malazan, can you feel it?

He had no breath hich to screahter

Soft whimpers filled the chamber, the twin voices of Toc and his captor

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Onearm’s Host, in that time, was perhaps the finest ariven the decie of Pale Drawn froiments that included companies from Seven Cities, Falar, and Malaz Island, these ten thousand soldiers were, by roll, four thousand nine hundred and twelve wo men; one thousand two hundred and sixty-seven under the recorded age of twenty-five years, seven hundred and twenty-one over the age of thirty-five years; the re in between

Re its soldiers could be found veterans of the Wickan Wars (see Coltaine’s Rebellion), the Aren Uprising (on both sides), and Blackdog Forest and Mott Wood

How does one measure such an army? By their deeds; and that which awaited theend carved in stone

East of Saltoan, a History of the Pannion Wars

Gouridd Palah

Midges swar over the faded, wavering green Oxen bellowed and moaned in their yokes, their eyes covered with clusters of the frenzied insects The Mhybe watched her Rhivi kin rease rass, which they suent had served the bhederin well for as long as the huge bison had been under the care of the Rhivi; a slighter thinner version was used by the Rhivi theent yet effective defence as well, whilst the Tiste Andii had proved evidently unpalatable to the biting insects What had drawn the es this time was the rank upon rank of unprotected Malazan soldiers