The Giants’ Dance. Robert Goldthwaite Carter
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The Giants’ Dance
Robert Carter
For Gerald Wiley, Four Candles.
‘First there were nine,
Then nine became seven,
And seven became five.
Now, as sure as the Ages decline,
Three are no more,
But one is alive.’
The Black Book of Tara
Table of Contents
CHAPTER THREE WHAT LIES WITHIN
CHAPTER FOUR THE LIGN OF THE ASH TREE
CHAPTER FIVE MAGICIAN, HEAL THYSELF!
CHAPTER SIX AN UNWELCOME GUEST
CHAPTER SEVEN A GOOD NIGHT’S REST
CHAPTER EIGHT THIS BLIGHTED LAND
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE KINDLY STUMP
CHAPTER FIFTEEN A THIEF AT LUDFORD
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE HOSTS GATHER
CHAPTER NINETEEN A TOAST BY THE DUKE
CHAPTER TWENTY THE MADNESS GROWS
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE A GLIMPSE OF THE ENEMY
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE BLOOD STONE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR FLESH ANEW
PART FOUR THE TURNING OF THE TIDE
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE TURLOCH’S RING
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX CASTLE CORBEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN THE DRAGON’S JAWS
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE THE NIGHT FLIER
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE A SURFEIT AT DELAMPREY
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO THE SECRET WEAPON
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE IN THE AFTERMATH
APPENDIX III THE LORC IN OUR WORLD
THE STORY SO FAR
The Giants’ Dance is the second book in the Language of Stones cycle. The first book, called The Language of Stones, recounted the story of Willand, a boy whose life was changed forever when the wizard, Gwydion, arrived at the village of Nether Norton in the Vale.
Gwydion, it is revealed, brought Will to the Vale when he was a baby, and has returned to reclaim him on his thirteenth birthday. Before Will leaves, Breona, the woman Will has always thought of as his mother, hangs about his neck a talisman of