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Shadowplay

Tad Williams
Contents ( 98)
  1. ShadowPlay
  2. TAD WILLIAMS
  3. ShadowPlay
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Contents
  7. Prelude
  8. PART ONE
  9. MASKS
  10. 1
  11. Exiles
  12. 2
  13. Drowning
  14. 3
  15. Night Noises
  16. 4
  17. The Hada-d’in-Mozan
  18. 5
  19. At Liberty
  20. 6
  21. Skurn
  22. 7
  23. Chasing the Jackals
  24. 8
  25. An Unremarkable Man
  26. 9
  27. In Lonely Deeps
  28. 10
  29. Crooked and his Great-Grandmother
  30. 11
  31. A Little Hard Work
  32. 12
  33. Two Yisti Knives
  34. 13
  35. Messages
  36. 14
  37. Hunted
  38. PART TWO
  39. MUMMERS
  40. 15
  41. The Boy in the Mirror
  42. 16
  43. Night Fires
  44. 17
  45. Bastard Gods
  46. 18
  47. Questions with No Answers
  48. 19
  49. Voices in the Forest
  50. 20
  51. A Piece of the Moon’s House
  52. 21
  53. The Deathwatch Chamber
  54. 22
  55. A Meeting of the Guild
  56. 23
  57. The Dreams of Gods
  58. 24
  59. Three Brothers
  60. PART THREE
  61. MACHINES
  62. 25
  63. The Gray Man
  64. 26
  65. Rising Wind
  66. 27
  67. The Players
  68. 28
  69. Secrets of the Black Earth
  70. 29
  71. Bells
  72. 30
  73. The Tanglewife
  74. 31
  75. The Dark-Eyed Girl
  76. 32
  77. Remembering Simmikin
  78. 33
  79. The Crocodile’s Roar
  80. 34
  81. Through Immon’s Gate
  82. 35
  83. Blessings
  84. 36
  85. The False Woman
  86. 37
  87. Silence
  88. 38
  89. Beneath the Burning Eye
  90. 39
  91. City of the Red Sun
  92. 40
  93. Offered to Nushash
  94. 41
  95. Kinswoman to Death
  96. 42
  97. The Raven’s Friend
  98. Appendix
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DAW Books Presents
the Finest in Imaginative Fiction by
TAD WILLIAMS

SHADOWMARCH

SHADOWPLAY

TAILCHASER’S SONG

THE WAR OF THE FLOWERS

MEMORY, SORROW AND THORN

THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR

STONE OF FAREWELL

TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER

OTHERLAND

CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW

RIVER OF BLUE FIRE

MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS

SEA OF SILVER LIGHT

ShadowPlay

Volume Two

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TAD WILLIAMS

ShadowPlay

Volume Two of Shadowmarch

DAW BOOKS, INC.

DONALD A. WOLLHEIM, FOUNDER
375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014
ELIZABETH R. WOLLHEIM
SHEILA E. GILBERT
PUBLISHERS

http://www.dawbooks.com

Copyright © 2007 by Tad Williams.
All Rights Reserved.

Jacket art by Todd Lockwood

DAW Book Collectors No. 1393.

DAW Books are distributed by Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

The scanning, uploading and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without the permission of the publisher is illegal, and punishable by law. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions, and do not participate in or encourage the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

ISBN: 978-1-101-21864-8

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This book like the first volume, is dedicated to our children Connor Williams and Devon Beale—who, since that first dedication, are a couple of years older and louder, but still quite fabulous. I flinch with love every time they shriek at me.

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Acknowledgements

Those wishing the full story of my gratitude should inspect the “thank-you-all” page in Shadowmarch. Nothing much has changed with the second volume.

Or those who don’t have Volume One to hand:

As always, many thanks to my editors Betsy Wollheim and Sheila Gilbert and everyone else at DAW Books, my wife Deborah Beale and our assistant Dena Chavez, and my agent Matt Bialer, and also my pets and children, who make every day a challenge and an adventure. (And whoever did good work without being challenged?)

Last of all, another shout-out to the folks at Shadowmarch.com. You are welcome to join us there. You don’t even have to bring booze or anything. (It’s a virtual community, after all.)

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Author’s Note

For those who wish to feel securely grounded in the Who, What, and Where of things, there are several maps and, at the end of the book, indexes of characters and places and other important materials.

The maps have been compiled from an exhaustive array of traveler’s tales, nearly illegible old documents, transcripts of oracular utterances, and the murmurings of dying hermits, not to mention the contents of an ancient box of land-office records discovered at a Syannese flea market. A similarly arcane and wearying process was responsible for the creation of the indexes. Use them well, remembering that many have died, or at least seriously damaged their vision and scholarly reputations, to make these aids available to you, the reader.