The Quiet

Chapters 55, 56, 63, 64, 69, 73

Chapter 65

Chapter 65: I Dare Not Meet in Dreams (Vision in Calagah Tunnels)

Those green eyes fixed on me, and I half imagined I felt a hand take mine where it splayed against the wall. I tried to scream, but my jaw would not work. My knees buckled, but I did not fall. Those eyes. Those terrible green eyes staring at me out of my face—was it my face? I could see nothing but those eyes. They filled the universe, became the universe, and behind them and through them I beheld countless suns. They scattered like embers and blew out, all but one. Toward it I fell and into a city whose spires and bell towers recalled the castle of my home, but all the buildings were strange. I heard a great wailing, as from an infant, as I stood beneath the vaults of a mighty chapel. There a cradle stood amid shattered statuary, and I approached, but the cradle held nothing but air. The image crumbled, and I fell backward through thick mist. As it parted I beheld a great ship studded with statues of men and gods and devils. She stretched across the heavens and drowned the unfixed stars.

And I saw the Cielcin standing in rank and file amidst the black of space itself, marching in the night. How bright their spears! And the song of them was like the flash of cruel lightning. Where they passed, the stars fell and planets went up like smoke. And I beheld one greater than the rest. Silver was its crown, and silver the inlay of its black armor, and its eyes were terrible as the worlds burning in its wake. The great ship with her statues overshadowed that Pale host and plunged into the nearest star like a knife descending.

Light.

I was blind, though in that brightness I sensed a presence. Shapes moving invisibly, casting no shadows. I tried to cry out, but the words would not come, for I had forgotten them. I felt nothing, heard nothing. Knew nothing.

Save three words.

This must be.

Chapters 14, 18, 22, 26, 31, 37, 38, 43, 46, 47, 50, 60, 61, 63, 70, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80

Chapters 1, 44, 59, 74

In Chapter 43, Brethren states the Quiet have a message to deliver to Hadrian. He receives a vision that implies that the Quiet were somehow involved in the Eurynasir's detour and Hadrian's arrival on Emesh. In Chapters 73-75, Hadrian is killed by the Cielcin Prince Aranato Otiolo, but the Quiet gives him new life. When Hadrian awakes aboard the Demiurge, he still has his right arm and his head—both cut off by Aranata in single combat.

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