Defiant Peaks (The Hadrumal Crisis)
“How soon before someone called for a recess tonight? Whoever it might be, Corrain couldn’t blame him. He would have emptied his own purse for a breath of fresh air. The atmosphere in this room was somewhere between stale and stifling at the end of this tedious day.
Four hundred and more Caladhrian barons had journeyed to Duryea, fulfilling their sworn duty to attend at least one quarterly parliament a year. They sat on benches at long tables on either side of the aisle running from the lectern ...beneath the great chamber’s north-facing window to the double door in the southern wall. Twenty tables, each one set with flagons and fine goblets for twenty lords and at the moment, at least twice that number were trying to talk, every one intent on having his say without listening to anyone else’s opinion.
This vast chamber easily accommodated them. Duryea’s merchants’ exchange was larger than any other in the realm. This most northerly of Caladhria’s market towns prospered whatever the season or the weather’s vagaries, thanks to the east-west high road carrying trade between the independent fiefdoms and towns of Ensaimin and the wealthy princes ruling the great houses of Tormalin.MoreLess
Four hundred and more Caladhrian barons had journeyed to Duryea, fulfilling their sworn duty to attend at least one quarterly parliament a year. They sat on benches at long tables on either side of the aisle running from the lectern ...beneath the great chamber’s north-facing window to the double door in the southern wall. Twenty tables, each one set with flagons and fine goblets for twenty lords and at the moment, at least twice that number were trying to talk, every one intent on having his say without listening to anyone else’s opinion.
This vast chamber easily accommodated them. Duryea’s merchants’ exchange was larger than any other in the realm. This most northerly of Caladhria’s market towns prospered whatever the season or the weather’s vagaries, thanks to the east-west high road carrying trade between the independent fiefdoms and towns of Ensaimin and the wealthy princes ruling the great houses of Tormalin.MoreLess
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