Vault Of Heaven 01 - The Unremembered

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For Cheyenne,
in the hope of more daddy stay-home days

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

This artifact you’re holding owes its existence to a multitude.

First, to Nat Sobel, the best kind of gentleman, who happens also to be a world-class agent. To Jim Frenkel, a great story guy, who also edited this tome and helped me through my first go at being published. And then there’s Irene Gallo, who makes art happen; and the rest of the marketing, publicity, and editorial crew at Tor, all of whom have impressed me immensely. Finally, Tom Doherty. You, sir, are the very definition of “epic.” Thank you for the opportunity. I’m humbled and grateful.

Here’s to Mannheim Steamroller, and their song “Red Wine,” in particular; I’ve had more early years writing fugues to this tune than I care to admit. Then to Terry Brooks, both in eighth grade and these last few years—another epic fellow. And oh my, to Stephen King, whose book
Night Shift
(my first King) I bought the year I graduated high school and realized I was indeed going to take hold of the flame (yes, that’s a Queensrÿche reference). I should also thank a great list of writers—some of whom I’ve had the good fortune to meet—but that would make these acknowledgments overlong; so this time out, I’ll mention Dan Simmons, whose work helps me strive to be a better writer. To all my writer compatriots in the Pacific Northwest: You’re tops. Thanks to Dean Smith, who was there at the beginning and at the end—and points in between. And to Eph and Virginia, I’d be nothing without your example.

Of course—and not least of all—there’s the family: Cathryn, for keeping us all sane and somehow happy; Alex, for his systematic chaos (yes, that’s a Dream Theater reference); and Cheyenne, whose picture kept me company in the dark hours of early, early morning as I dragged myself to my writing chair and continued to hope.

 

CONTENTS

 

            
Title Page

            
Dedication

            
Acknowledgments

            
Map

 

            
Prologue: The Whiting

            
Epigraphs

  
1
        The Right Draw

  
2
        Strangers in the Hollows

  
3
        A Late Reader

  
4
        Dangers of the Road

  
5
        Quiet in the Hollows

  
6
        Payment in Oaths

  
7
        The Birth of Flight

  
8
        Release of the Shrikes

  
9
        True Introductions

10
        A Maere and Training

11
        Harbingers

12
        Questions and Dreams

13
        Myrr

14
        Subtleties

15
        Crones

16
        A Need for Pretense

17
        Beatings

18
        Sedagin

19
        Teheale

20
        Small Victories

21
        Partings

22
        Escaping the Darkness

23
        The Help of Young and Old

24
        The Rushing of Je’holta

25
        The Tenendra

26
        A Songbox

27
        The Wall of Remembrance

28
        Widows Village

29
        Reputations

30
        Emblems

31
        Names of the Dead

32
        Inveterae

33
        The Stakes Are Raised

34
        The Scar

35
        The Wages of a Kiss

36
        Dust on the Boards

37
        Wards of the Scar

38
        The Tracker

39
        Heresy

40
        Reunion

41
        Memory of an Emotional Scar

42
        Qum’rahm’se

43
        More Scars

44
        Stonemount

45
        Ta’Opin

46
        Hidden Jewels

47
        The Wilds

48
        A Primrose

49
        The Untabernacled

50
        Fever Dreams

51
        Revelations in Parchment

52
        Public Discipline

53
        Reluctantly Used

54
        Recityv Civility

55
        Darksong

56
        A Quiet Cradle

57
        A Servant’s Tale

58
        Maesteri

59
        A Servant’s Tale, Part II

60
        Sodality and the Blade of Seasons

61
        Dreadful Majesty

62
        The Lesher Roon

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