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And I have been defeated

By mortals -

The sky heaved over her -- she looked up Eyes widening in disbelief-

The wolf thrashed, battered against the bone bars of its cage -- its cage …-

And that is a pain I share

His chest was on fire, blosso fro his ribs-yet it grew no stronger, indeed, see was iift-

Gift? This pain? Hohat is it? What comes to me?

Old, so very old Bittersweet, lost rief -- a stor like ice, then row nued away-

Blinking in the darkness, his lone eye as blind as the other one -- the one he had lost at Pale So, the floor and walls shaking, chains snapping, dust raining fro I astones near his head, frantic and yearning

Reaching It wantscloser And now voices, desperate bellowing co from the other side of walls … down a corridor, perhaps Clash of weapons, screa on the floor

Toc shifted his head -- and saw so as it shrieked without pause Massive, taloned hands stretched iht flashed in the cavern, revealing in an instant the monstrous, fat-layered reptile chained opposite Toc, its eyes lit with terror The stone that ithin reach of the creature was gouged with countless scars, on all sides, a hatch- horror within the Malazan … for it was a nightnized within himself

She -- she isin desperate, jerky hut had occupied for so long, was falling to pieces -- and ed ever closer to the Matron, to Mother

The enorainst the wall Its shrieks did not pause, resounding through the cavern

The Seer held so, not froic that waxed with every word of the Seer’s song

Toc watched as so exploded froht to flee upward-