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‘Only if you choose to use it that way Mockra’s not a good example; the eddies take you nowhere, mostly Because it’s sorcery of the mind, and the mind’s a lot more limited than we’d care to think Take Meanas – that’s another warren It’s aspected to shadows and illusion, a child of Thyr, the warren of Light Separate but related Open the warren of Meanas, and you can travel through shadows Unseen, and fast as thought itself, nearly And illusions, well, that reveals the sisterhood to Mockra, for it is a kind of manipulation of theof light and shadow and dark’

‘Do the Tiste Edur employ this Meanas?’ Seren asked

‘Uh, no Not really Theirs is a warren not normally accessible to humans Kurald Emurlahn It’s Shadow, but Shadow more as a Hold than a warren Besides, Kurald Emurlahn is shattered In pieces The Tiste Edur can access but one fraght Mockra and Meanas and Thyr There are others?’

‘Plenty, lass Rashan, Ruse, Tennes, Hood-’

‘Hood You use that hen you curse, don’t you?’

‘Aye, it’s the warren of Death It’s the na about warrens They can be realh and you can find yourself in a land with ten moons overhead, and stars in constellations you’ve never seen before Places with two suns Or places filled with the spirits of the dead – although if you step through the gates in Hood’s Realm you don’t coe finds a warren suited to his or her nature, a natural affinity if you like And through enough study and discipline you find ways of reaching into it,use of the forces within it So they don’t have to work as hard’

‘So, you reach into this Mockra, and that gets you into the minds of other people’

‘Sort of, lass I make use of proclivities Ishadows The victim’s body does the rest’

‘Their body? What do you hter One of the what’s about to happen The other, well, you push it down a track, in some place filled with the stench of death, with screa animals on all sides Until, stupid as that cow is, it knohat’s co And is filled with terror Then you kill it Cut a haunch from each beast, do they taste identical?’

‘I have no idea’

‘They don’t Because the frightened cow’s blood was filled with bitter fluids That’s what fear does Bitter, noxious fluids Makes the meat itself unhealthy to eat My point is, you trick the mind to respond to invisible fears, unfounded beliefs, and the blood goes foul, and that foulness makes the fear worse, turns the belief into certainty’

‘As if the slaughterhouse for the second coas only an illusion, when in truth it was crossing pasture’

‘Exactly’

Seren studied the back of Iron Bars where he rode ahead, and was silent