The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6)

by Steven Erikson

‘I didn’t really think you’d answer my prayer.’ ‘I am a god virtually brimming with surprises.’ Kalam’s gaze narrowed. ‘You came damned fast, too. As if you were…close by.’ ‘An outrageous assumption,’ Cotillion said. ‘Yet, oddly enough, accurate.’