Dust of Dreams/Chapter 16

Epigraph

Sower of words out from the hungry shade The seeds in your wake drink the sun And the roots burst from their shells— This is a wilderness of your own making, Green chaos too real to countenance Your words unravel the paths and blind the trail With crowding boles and the future is lost To the world of possibilities you so nurtured In that hungry shade—sower of words Heed the truth they will make, for all they Need is a rain of tears and the light of day The Ease of Shadows (Simple Words) Bevela Delik

Errastas (the Errant) has summoned the Elder Gods to a meeting on an ancient, dead world. He came with Sechul Lath and Kilmandaros; eventually Olar Ethil and Mael arrive too. They are unhappy, considering the meeting to be premature. They warn Errastas that things are happening about which he is unaware, and that he cannot control. Errastas also becomes aware that Sechul and Kilmandaros themselves have plans. The meeting breaks up, Errastas leaving with Sechul and Kilmandaros.

The Bonehunters and their Letherii escort are en route to D'rhasilhani, first on foot, then by barge.