Only The Stones Survive: A Novel (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
The Children of Light held all life to be sacred, and the life of Ierne had responded in full measure. The birds whom we fed when the frost and ice of darkseason depleted their food had flown to the farthest reaches of the land, summoning the few Túatha Dé Danann who did not already know about our peril so they might hurry to help us. Allies nearer to the battlefield had joined in the struggle too. The swift and clever deer had come out of hiding and appeared at the edge of the fighting in order to distract the foreigners, the hunters. Some of our enemies had left the battle in order to pursue and murder them. Calling it sport. On the battleground, brave badgers and ferocious stoats had emerged from setts and tunnels in the earth to bite the trampling feet of the Mílesians. Hares and foxes and even graceful little pine martens, who were among the shyest animals on the island, had scampered across the field long enough to draw the attention of the foreigners, then raced away again with a baying crowd in pursuit.
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