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Stone of Farewell
by Tad Williams
Book Two of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn

Foreword .................................................................................................................. 7
PART ONE: STORMY EYE......................................................................................... 9
The Music of High Places......................................................................................... 9
Masks and Shadows................................................................................................ 18
Oath-Breaker .......................................................................................................... 30
A Bowl of Calamint Tea.......................................................................................... 45
Singing ManтАЩs House.............................................................................................. 60
The Nameless Dead ................................................................................................ 74
Spreading Fires ...................................................................................................... 86
On SikkihoqтАЩs Back............................................................................................... 105
Cold and Curses ................................................................................................... 121
The Mirror ............................................................................................................ 141
PART TWO: STORMтАЩS HAND ............................................................................... 155
Bones of the Earth ................................................................................................ 155
Birdstreaks............................................................................................................ 171
The Stallion Clan .................................................................................................. 184
A Crown of Fire .................................................................................................... 198
Within GodтАЩs Walls............................................................................................... 212
The Unhomed........................................................................................................ 224
A Wager of Little Value ........................................................................................ 242
PART THREE: STORMтАЩS HEART......................................................................... 259
The Lost Garden ................................................................................................... 259
Children of the Navigator..................................................................................... 270
A Thousand Steps.................................................................................................. 286
Prince of Grass ..................................................................................................... 301
Through the Summer Gate.................................................................................... 314
Deep Waters ......................................................................................................... 329
Dogs of Erchester ................................................................................................. 342
Stuck in a Wild Storm ........................................................................................... 359
Painted Eyes ......................................................................................................... 376
The Black Sled ...................................................................................................... 387
Sparks ................................................................................................................... 401
 This series is dedicated to my mother, Barbara Jean Evans, who taught to me a deep
affection for Toad Hall, the Hundred Aker Woods, the Shire, and many other hidden places
and countries beyond the fields we know. She also induced in me a lifelong desire to make
my own discoveries, and to share them with others. I wish to share these books with her.
 . . . Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.
Where are now the waning kings.
Word be-mockers? тАУ By the Rood,
Where are now the warring kings?
An idle word is now their glory,
By the stammering schoolboy said,
Reading some entangled story: