“At this time of the day, most of the young were working in the kitchens or eating in the dining room – except those on sentry duties. Ruzalia did not like idle hands. Naif glanced at the arched windows, which gave views of the cold blue sea beyond. La Galatea must have been so beautiful once. It still was, in a way, but the ceilings were mottled by age and the wooden trim on the frames and borders of the rooms no longer shone. By asking others, and hunting through the tiny library attached to t...he old ballroom, Charlonge had learned that Ruzalia’s home had once been a resort for people of wealth and means. Neither Naif nor Markes knew of the word ‘resort’ until Charlonge had explained it. According to the guest book, she said, visitors had come here from a place called Cheong. Charlonge had never heard of Cheong but Mesree told her that it was a city along part of a coastline that had sunk when the Golden Spiral formed. In the years since, with no occupants to pay and fill its coffers, the resort had decayed.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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