Sharon K. Penman - Falls the Dragon

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Falls the Shado

ALSO BY SHARON KAY PENMAN

The Sunne in Splendour

Here Be Dragons

The Reckoning

FALLS

THE SHADOW

SHARON KAY PENMAN

Ballantine Books

New York

Sale of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized If this book is

coverless, it may have been reported to the publisher as "unsold or destroyed"

and neither the author nor the publisher may have received payment for it

To Marian Wood

portions thereof in any form, under International and PanAmerican Copyright

Conventions Published m the United States by Ballantme Books, a division of

Random House, Inc , New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of

Canada Limited, Toronto

"The Hollow Men, "from Collected Poems 1909-1962 by T S Eliot,

1963,1964 by T S Eliot Reprinted by permission of the publisher

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-92222 ISBN 0-345 36033-8

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This edition published by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, Inc

Cover design by James R Harris Cover illustration Thirteen-century French

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The Granger Collection Maps by Anita Karl and James Kemp

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Ballantme Books Edition May 1989

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Prolog

Castle of St Jacques -oe-Beuvron, Brittany

February 1231

J.H

J. HEY crossed the border into Brittany at noon, soon afterward found

themselves in an eerily silent landscape, shrouded in dense, spectral fog.

Simon showed neither unease nor surprise, merely commented that they must be

nearing the sea. But his squire was not so sanguine. Geoffrey fumbled within

his mantle, seeking his crucifix. Bretagne, he whispered, as if the ancient

name of this ominous realm might prove a talisman, protecting him and his

young lord. It was a land steeped in dark legend, a land in which the people

spun firelit tales of Merlin and the Celtic King, Arthur, a land with its own

myths, its own arcane tongue, not a land to welcome strangersBretagne.

Geoffrey did not fear Breton bandits, for he'd never seen a better swordsman

than Simon. But he wondered how they'd fare against shadows, against the demon

spirits that were said to haunt these dark, foreboding forests. Once he

broached the subject; Simon only laughed. Geoffrey was very much in awe of his

lord, but understanding so far eluded him. How was it that Simon seemed so

blessedly free of the fears that plagued other men? How could he believe this

mad quest of his might succeed?

So thick and enveloping was the fog that they were upon the castle before they

realized it. They drew rein while Simon studied the fortress, almost as if he

were planning an assault. And indeed, Geoffrey thought, he was! It was a

formidable edifice of Caen stone, erected by the most ruthless of Normandy's

dukes, William the Bastard, whoagainst all oddshad won the crown of the island

kingdom of England. Geoffrey wondered if Simon was thinking of that now, if he

was daunted by the odds he himself faced. But Simon's face revealed nothing.

Urging his stallion forward, he emerged from the swirling, smoke-colored mist,

his sudden, sorcerer-like appearance before the gatehouse drawing an immediate

challenge from the startled guards.

Simon raised a hand. "I am Sir Simon de Montfort," he said, "of

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