‘Who named him Stonewielder?’ the Malazan demanded, almost frenzied. Hiam felt his jaws clenching. ‘We do not discuss that,’ he ground out. ‘Who! Dammit, I must know.’ Master Engineer Stimins caught Hiam’s gaze, cocked a brow. Hiam gave him curt assent. ‘There are locals on these islands. Indigenous tribals who survive here and there, such as in the Screaming range. They first named him Stonewielder. There are long-standing predictions of the wall’s destruction. As old as the wall itself. They claimed he fit them. The stone’s revenge against the wall – that sort of nonsense.’
