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The
muddy
-
iron
taste
of
the
water
filled
his
mouth
,
cooled
his
parched
throat
.
It
eased
his
fatigue
and
his
madness
.
By
the
third
walnut
-
shell
,
he
was
no
longer
thirsty
.
He
began
to
struggle
,
then
,
pulling
at
the
ropes
,
flailing
his
body
,
trying
to
get
down
,
to
get
free
,
to
get
away
.
He
moaned
.
The
knots
were
good
.
The
ropes
were
strong
,
and
they
held
,
and
soon
he
exhausted
himself
once
more
.
In
his
delirium
,
Shadow
became
the
tree
.
Its
roots
went
deep
into
the
loam
of
the
earth
,
deep
down
into
time
,
into
the
hidden
springs
.
He
felt
the
spring
of
the
woman
called
Urd
,
which
is
to
say
,
Past
.
She
was
huge
,
a
giantess
,
an
underground
mountain
of
a
woman
,
and
the
waters
she
guarded
were
the
waters
of
time
.
Other
roots
went
to
other
places
.
Some
of
them
were
secret
.
Now
,
when
he
was
thirsty
,
he
pulled
water
from
his
roots
,
pulled
them
up
into
the
body
of
his
being
.
He
had
a
hundred
arms
which
broke
into
a
hundred
thousand
fingers
,
and
all
of
his
fingers
reached
up
into
the
sky
.
The
weight
of
the
sky
was
heavy
on
his
shoulders
.
It
was
not
that
the
discomfort
was
lessened
,
but
the
pain
belonged
to
the
figure
hanging
from
the
tree
,
rather
than
to
the
tree
itself
,
and
Shadow
in
his
madness
was
now
so
much
more
than
the
man
on
the
tree
.
He
was
the
tree
,
and
he
was
the
wind
rattling
the
bare
branches
of
the
world
tree
;
he
was
the
gray
sky
and
the
tumbling
clouds
;
he
was
Ratatosk
the
squirrel
running
from
the
deepest
roots
to
the
highest
branches
;
he
was
the
mad
-
eyed
hawk
who
sat
on
a
broken
branch
at
the
top
of
the
tree
surveying
the
world
;
he
was
the
worm
in
the
heart
of
the
tree
.
The
stars
wheeled
,
and
he
passed
his
hundred
hands
over
the
glittering
stars
,
palming
them
,
switching
them
,
vanishing
them
…
A
moment
of
clarity
,
in
the
pain
and
the
madness
:
Shadow
felt
himself
surfacing
.
He
knew
it
would
not
be
for
long
.
The
morning
sun
was
dazzling
him
.
He
closed
his
eyes
,
wishing
he
could
shade
them
.
There
was
not
long
to
go
.
He
knew
that
,
too
.
