“How long have I been asleep?” he said. “Feels like hours.”

“It was,” Trey said. “Ten, eleven hours.”

“It should be dawn.” Kosar looked out through the ribs and saw the dark ridges of Kang Kang to the south, their pinnacles biting at the moonlit sky. Then east, out toward New Shanti, where the sun was not.

“It should be,” Hope said, “but it isn’t. No sun today, Kosar. There’ll be no sun today.”

He shook his head, not understanding. Above the eastern horizon there was only a sad smudge, like the memory of life reflected in a pale corpse’s eyes. The rest of the sky was the same sickly hue, redolent of the death moon at its brightest. Kosar held up his hand—he could see the shape, but no real color. He could feel the moonlight on his skin, but there was no warmth.

“I don’t understand.”

“The Mages have made their first move,” Hope said. “What are we, any of us, without daylight?”

THE MACHINE, BORNE by magic, drifted south, edging closer to the peaks of darkest Kang Kang. While Kosar, Hope and Trey watched for a dawn that would not arrive, Alishia slept behind them.

And she dreamed.

Such dark, fearsome dreams.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Lebbon lives in South Wales with his wife and two children. His books include Face, The Nature of Balance, Changing of Faces, Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark), Dead Man’s Hand, Pieces of Hate, Fears Unnamed, White and Other Tales of Ruin, Desolation and Berserk. Future publications include Hellboy: Unnatural Selection from Simon & Schuster, and more books with Cemetery Dance, Leisure, Night Shade Books and Necessary Evil Press, among others. He has won two British Fantasy Awards, a Bram Stoker Award and a Tombstone Award, and has been a finalist for International Horror Guild and World Fantasy Awards. Several of his novels and novellas are currently under option.

Also by Tim Lebbon

ALSO BY TIM LEBBON

NOVELS

Mesmer

The Nature of Balance

Hush (with Gavin Williams)

Face

Until She Sleeps

Desolation

Berserk

NOVELLAS

White

Naming of Parts

Changing of Faces

Exorcising Angels (with Simon Clark)

Dead Man’s Hand

Pieces of Hate

COLLECTIONS

Faith in the Flesh

As the Sun Goes Down

White and Other Tales of Ruin

Fears Unnamed

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DAWN

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DAWN

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FLYING HIGH ABOVE Noreela, it was easy to believe that the world had ended again.