The captain is wary of the Adjunct to the Empress who grills him about his past and his thoughts on the Purge there. With that, shadows flow out from Cotillion to embrace the fishergirl and she knows no more.Īn unnamed Captain is accompanying the Adjunct as they are riding towards the area of the massacre. The fishergirl mutters something indicating that she and the old woman are now one person, having joined at the moment of the old woman's death. The two figures then reveal themselves to be Cotillion and Ammanas, and they seem to be discussing what to do with the fishergirl.Ĭotillion and the fishergirl by Kremena ChipilovaĬotillion says that she will do for their purposes, and it is implied that they will use the fishergirl as an instrument of vengeance against the Empress Laseen. The short man sends them tearing after the horses. As it dissipates, seven hounds lie on the road with him, likewise staring after the army. The shorter man raises his arms and a darkness descends. A man swathed in black approaches and tries to calm her while a shorter man stands in the road looking after the army that has just passed and mocks the other two quietly. He rides off and the army passes by but the girl remains there, with Rigga's corpse sprawled across her lap. One of the riders stops and cracks the old woman's skull, killing her. Rigga also tells the fishergirl that the Lord spawned in darkness shall be the hand to free her. Rigga claims the girl's soul will be embraced by shadow but that Rigga will preserve her because they are linked. Rigga begins spouting prophecy at the fishergirl, claiming that the girl will be the last to hear her, and Rigga will be the last one to speak to the girl. Suddenly, the old woman knocks the basket of twine from the fishergirl's head and grips her hair painfully. The old woman has a bag of candles while the fishergirl is bringing twine to her father because their net was taken in the deep water. A young fishergirl stands on the roadside in Itko Kan next to an old woman named Rigga as the army rides by on the road. Seven years have passed since the events in the prologue. In sunset he came, a boy among the echoes Up from the sea between the hills soaked red

Malazan gardens of the moon