Mountain of Black Glass (119 page)

She had come far to find this place, this tower. The voices in her head had led her through nights and days, across pine-forested mountains and a rain-battered coast where the orange lights of oil derricks gleamed out beyond the tide flats like spaceships searching for a dry spot to land. The voices had led her to this spot. Then, without warning, they had deserted her.

They were gone now, all those voices, utterly gone. The nights were suddenly empty. In all the years of her mostly solitary life, the woman had never felt so alone.

She leaned on the balcony railing, waiting for the end of the world.

 

TAILCHASER'S SONG

 

THE DRAGONBONE CHAIR (Book 1)
STONE OF FAREWELL (Book 2)
TO GREEN ANGEL TOWER (Book 3)

 

CITY OF GOLDEN SHADOW (Book 1)
RIVER OF BLUE FIRE (Book 2)
MOUNTAIN OF BLACK GLASS (Book 3)
SEA OF SILVER LIGHT (Book 4)*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Forthcoming from DAW Books in hardcover