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Memory Sorrow & Thorn
Book 4
To Green Angel Tower, part 2
Tad Williams





PART ONE
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The
Turning WfteeC

End of PART ONE




Tears and Smoke

Ttona^- fowvt the empty treelessness of the High
Thrithing oppressive- Kwanitupul was strange, too, but he
had been visiting that place since childhood, and its tum-
bledown buildings and ubiquitous waterways at least re-
minded him a little of his marshy home. Even Perdruin,
where he had spent time in lonely exile, was so filled
with close-leaning walls and narrow pathways, so riddled
with shadowy hiding places and blanketed in the salt
smell of the sea, that Tiamak had been able to live with
his homesickness. But here on (jhe grasslands he felt tre-
mendously exposed and utterly out of place. It was not a
comforting feeling.

They Who Watch and Shape have indeed made a
strange life for me, he often reflected. The strangest, per-
haps, of any they have made for my people since Nuobdig
married the Fire Sister.

Sometimes there was solace in this thought. To have
been marked out for such unusual events was, after all, a
sort of repayment for the years of misunderstanding that
his own people and the drylanders on Perdruin had shown
him. Of course he was not understood-he was special:

what other Wrannaman could speak and read the dryland-
er tongues as he could? But lately, surrounded again by
strangers, and with no knowledge of what had happened
to his own folk, it filled him with loneliness. At such