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ADMONITION TO THE READER
Geography in Ireland is an equivocal thing, and perhaps meant to be so. The more solid the
borderline, the more dangerous the land's own response to it; the vaguer the boundary, the
kindlier. This is best seen in the behavior of the borders between what we consider our own reality,
and the other less familiar realities that shoulder up against it. Such boundaries are never very
solid in Ireland, and never more dangerous than when one tries to define them, to cross over.
Twilight is always safer there than full day, or full dark. This being the case, I have taken
considerable liberties with locations and with 'established' boundaries, including those between
counties and towns. County Wicklow is real enough, but there are a lot of things in the Wicklow in
this book that are not presently located in the 'real' county -and my version of Bray is not meant to
represent the real oneтАж at the moment. The description of the townlands around Ballyvolan Farm
and the neighborhood of Kilquade is more or less real, though the two are actually some miles
apart. And Sugar loaf Mountain looks like parts of its descriptionтАж occasionally.
Most specifically, though, Castle Matrix exists - possibly more concretely than anything else in the
book. But it has been moved from its present, 'actual' location. Or perhaps one can more rightly
say that Matrix has stayed where it is, where it always is, but Ireland has shifted around it.
Stranger things have happened. In any case, let the inquisitive reader bewareтАж and leave the maps
at home.

тАФDiane Duane




1. an tSionainn
Shannon

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I am the Point of a Weapon (that poureth forth combat),
I am the God who fashioneth Fire for a headтАж Who calleth the hosts from the House of
Tethra? Who is the troop, who is the God who fashioneth edges?
(Lebor Gabdla Erenn, tr. Macalister)
Three signs of the Return: the stranger in the door: the friendless wizard: the unmitigated Sun.
Three signs of the Monomachy: a smith without a forge: a saint without a cell: a day without a
night. (Book of Night with Moon, triptychs 113, 598)


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The first that Nita found out about what was going to happen was when she came in after a long
afternoon's wizardry with Kit. They had been working for three days to attempt to resolve a
territorial dispute among several trees. It isn't easy to argue with a tree. It isn't easy to get one to
stop strangling another one with its roots. But they were well along towards what appeared to be a
negotiated settlement, and Nita was worn out.
She came into the kitchen to find her mother cooking. Her mother cooked a great deal as a hobby,
but she also cooked as therapy. Nita began to worry immediately when she noticed that her mother