Contents

Synopsis

Prologue

Pocket Diary Entry # l

The Hell Between

Astrid

The Water’s Eye #2

An Apology

Only Begotten Son

Tea

Eggs Benediction

The Lie In Belief

The Great Flood

The Lie In Belief #2

Pocket Diary Entry # 2

In the Laps of the Gods

Eyes and Ears

Montanha Do Pico

Validation

Pocket Diary Entry # 3

High Tea

Pyramids and Prophecies

Blindside

Tiris Avu

Pyramid G-1b

Translation

Menkaure

The Immortal’s Deathbed

Menkaure #2

God Save the Queen

Imaginings

The Risen Past

Pocket Diary Entry # 4

A Far Country

Assembly

The Army of God

The Shadows Between the Bookshelves

The Sport of Angels

Heart

Insulting the Sun God

Bird’s Eye

Water Rights

My Heart

Moirai

The Exchange

The Garden of Evil

Expressions

Hold Your Breath

When the Doors Shut

The Old Law

Doubling Back

The Impossibility of William Greenhame

Where It Leads

Othayr

A Dissertation: We Will Not Find Supernatural Trickery

Your Plan, Your Gift (A Dream)

Fireside Stories

The Planter

Ruler With the Spear

The Mask Maker

Fire Tending

Across the Canal

I Don’t Know

Fausto’s Web

The Shape of Rain

Masks On the Counter

The Mother of God

Covenant

The Trust of Helen Newirth

The Big Deep Heavy

Like the Book

Newirtheism

Pocket Diary Entry # 5

Templar and the Queen

Black Boat on the Water

Into the Avu

Can the Past Change?

A Day In Wyn Avuqua

The Message In The Stars

Pocket Diary Entry # 6

The Sun Room

Words From the East

The Artwork of Basil Fenn

Locked

A Bed and a Book

Silence. Flash. Goodbye.

The Art that Changes Us

The Death Mask: Ithicsazj

The Map To Heaven

The Seige of Wyn Avuqua

The Maze Of You and Me

To Dellithion Omvide

Don’t Die

The Space Between

Dedication

The Planter #2

The Walls We Place Behind Us

The Next Sentence

Champagne Breakfast

Wine Before a Duel

Sweet Sixteen

What Is Written there?

The Move on the Board

Sigourney’s Line

The Move on the Board #2

The Stairs

The Poet and His Immortals

The Bane of Immortality

The Battle of the Masques

The Bridges

The Planter #3

The Shadows Between the Bookshelves #2

Going In With Them

The Hand of Yafarra

Where the Ink Bled

Epilogue

Afterword

Appendices

Appendix I. Characters of the Newirth Mythology

Appendix II. Itonalya Myth:

Appendix III. The Game of Shtan

Appendix IV. Miscellaneous Translations and Terms

Appendix V. Of Loche Newirth”s Poetry

Appendix VII. Elliqui

English to Elliqui

Elliqui to English

Acknowledgments