Landslayer's Law (2016)
“Certainly the room he entered, that the rest of his comrades were now crowding into, forcing him further forward, was not the vast chamber he’d have expected from such an imposing portal. Though high-vaulted, with simple round arches of rough-cut stone, the space itself was small when compared to the scale of the rest of the palace: thirty feet wide, perhaps, and no more than half again as long: the size of a small house, say.
And filled with light. For the walls between the piers opposite were... almost entirely glazed: panes of honey-toned glass interspersed with white or clear, all frosted with more of those interlace designs; while the plain granite blocks of the other walls were brightened by tapestries depicting wildly romantic landscapes and vivid hunting scenes that would not have been out of place in a French Renaissance chateau. The pale limestone floor was piled thick with oriental rugs—human work, by the look of them, and priceless. A fireplace dominated the right hand end, carved of ruddy stone in the shape of a slightly whimsical hell-mouth.MoreLess
And filled with light. For the walls between the piers opposite were... almost entirely glazed: panes of honey-toned glass interspersed with white or clear, all frosted with more of those interlace designs; while the plain granite blocks of the other walls were brightened by tapestries depicting wildly romantic landscapes and vivid hunting scenes that would not have been out of place in a French Renaissance chateau. The pale limestone floor was piled thick with oriental rugs—human work, by the look of them, and priceless. A fireplace dominated the right hand end, carved of ruddy stone in the shape of a slightly whimsical hell-mouth.MoreLess
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