![]() For Ganoes, the ancient fortification overlooking the city was too familiar to be of interest. To his left rose the pike and its wayward trophy. Had been conquered, relegated once more to a Fist's holding. Behind him rose Mock's Hold, once capital of the Empire but now, since the mainland Ganoes Stabro Paran of the House of Paran stood on tiptoe to see over the merlon. The Vane's silence announced the sudden falling-off of the sea breeze that came clambering over the ragged walls of Mock's Hold, then it creaked back into life as the hot, spark-scattered and smoke-filled breath of the Mouse Quarter reached across the city to sweep the promontory's heights. ![]() ![]() The winds were contrary the day columns of smoke rose over the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City. Monstrous and misshapen, it had been cold-hammered into the form of a winged demon, teeth bared in a leering grin, and was tugged and buffeted in squealing protest with every gust of wind. A century old, it squatted on the point of an old pike that had been bolted to the outer top of the Hold's wall. I HE STAINS OF RUST SEEMED TO MAP BLOOD SEAS ON THE BLACK, pocked surface of Mock's Vane. PROLOGUE 1154th Year of Burn's Sleep 96th Year of the Malazan Empire The Last Year of Emperor Kellanved's Reign Gardens of the Moon A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen 1 Steven Erikson 5 (the glaring format errors have been corrected unproofed still needs alot of work) -Book Information: Genre: Epic Fantasy Author: Steven Erikson Name: Gardens of the Moon Series: A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen 1 = Any special fronting has long since been lost… Current e-book version is. txt format(which was the only format the original scanned text was in. Errors still abound, but it should be much more readable now. I had to reformat the entire thing and correct a ton of OCR errors. The person scanning the book(wasn’t me!) did a very bad job. Notes: Scanned by: Unknown Corrected and formatted by: JASC -This scan was a horrible wreck.
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