标题: 《She Is The Darkness_ BookTwo of Glittering Stone_ A Novel of the Black Comp.. [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-9-13 07:38 标题: 《She Is The Darkness_ BookTwo of Glittering Stone_ A Novel of the Black Comp.. SHE IS THE DARKNESS by Glen Cook The Seventh Chronicle of the Black Company ?? ? The wind whines and howls with bitter breath. Lightning snarls and barks. Rage is an animate force upon the plain of glittering stone. Even shadows are afraid. The scars of cataclysm disfigure a plain that has known only an age of dark perfection. A jagged fissure lies like a lightning slash across its face. Nowhere is that fissure so wide that a child could not step across but it seems bottomless. Trailers of mist drift forth. Some bear a hint of color. Any color clashes with the thousand blacks and greys. At the heart of the plain stands a vast grey stronghold, unknown, older than any written memory. One ancient tower has collapsed across the fissure. From the heart of the fastness comes a great deep slow beat like that of a slumbering world-heart, cracking the olden silence. Death is eternity. Eternity is stone. Stone is silence. Stone cannot speak but stone remembers. 1 The Old Man looked up. His quill twitched, betraying his irritation