Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Dedication

THE CHARACTERS

1 SWORD AND SCIMITAR

2 GOD’S ARMY

3 HOVER, THEN SWOOP

4 SEA–FEAST

5 CHIN–PIE AND A MISERABLE WOOD LOUSE

6 GALLEYS AND TRANSPORTS

7 GLASS VENETIANS

8 HOWEVER HARD WE TRY

9 NOTHING IS EASY

10 FIGHTING–FEAR

11 ENEMIES OF GOD

12 OF THE BODY, OF THE HEART

13 SOMETHING VERY NASTY

14 CATCHING FEVER

15 A MOTHER TO FIND

16 SARACEN TRADERS

17 MY SHINING PROMISE

18 A LITTLE MARCH MIRACLE

19 WINNIE’S LETTER

20 THE GREATEST NAME OF ANY KNIGHT

21 WAX AND DIAMOND

22 MERLIN, QUESTIONING

23 SIR ARTHUR

24 STILL BURNING

25 AT THE STORK

26 LIFEBLOOD

27 AT LAST

28 INSTRUMENTS OF THE DEVIL

29 YOUR TRUE BELIEVER

30 THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE

31 THE YOUNGEST AND THE OLDEST

32 SEEING EYE TO EYE

33 DEEP WATERS

34 TO LEAD YOU AND LOOK AFTER YOU

35 CHEEKS AND STRUTTING PEACOCKS

36 NOT ASKING THE QUESTION

37 THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS

38 LOVE AND LEMON

39 EMBARKATION

40 THE VERMILION GALLEY

41 HEAVEN’S MESSENGERS

42 DISASTER

43 BLEEDING BY NIGHT AND DAY

44 SO MANY TONGUES

45 TWO BALLS

46 LACRIMAE RERUM

47 MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE

48 THE POISONED APPLE

49 ACCUSATIONS

50 A BAG OF WINDS

51 HEELS OVER HEAD

52 OLD WOUNDS

53 SIR URRY

54 NIGHT–LIGHTS

55 ZARA

56 TACT AND TACTICS

57 BEHIND OUR BACKS

58 FEET FIRST

59 GOSSIP–WIND

60 READY TO DIE

61 A LITTLE, FLAILING, BITING, WHIMPERING THING

62 THROWN

63 GRIM AND UGLY AND VILE

64 INTO THE FLAMES

65 THE DARK–EYED DOLL

66 DIVIDED IN ITSELF

67 THIS IS GOING TO HURT

68 JIHAD

69 MISERERE MEI

70 THE SPIRIT–GARDEN

71 LADY, WE THANK YOU

72 THE HEART–IN–WAITING

73 IVORY AND GOLD AND OBSIDIAN

74 NOTHING BUT PAWNS

75 AN OLIVE BRANCH

76 THE POPE’S LETTER

77 BYZANTINE EYES

78 COMBAT

79 DESERTERS

80 HALF A HORSE BLANKET

81 BLOOD–BLADE

82 A LITTLE WE DIE

83 HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF MILES

84 NOTHING LASTS

85 GIVE THEM HOPE

86 ALIVE!

87 BY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL

88 BOY–GIRL

89 MY OWN SON

90 HEAD–LINE AND HEART–LINE

91 GREAT BEDS, AND OTHER WONDERS

92 WAIL AS YOU WILL

93 IN MY BLOOD AND BONE

94 AT SEA

95 HIRAETH

96 A PATH OF FEATHERS

97 VESSELS OF THE SPIRIT

98 IN YOUR GREEN CARE

99 THE VOICE OF AN ANGEL

100 KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL

101 THE MOST BITTER DAY

102 I JUST DON’T KNOW!

103 DOWN TO THE WATER

104 HOME

105 WHERE ARE YOU TODAY I KEEP WONDERING

106 MOTHER SLIM AND SISTER GRACE

107 DIGGING

108 THE KING WHO WAS AND WILL BE

109 SUCH HIGH HAPPINESS

110 MY MOTHER

111 EACH ONE OF US

112 THE KING IN YOURSELF

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CALENDAR

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