Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher. Excerpted from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. Short Fictions and Illusions Chapter One Nicholas Was.
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