Mother of Winter
“In five years of living in the Keep, of traveling in the depopulated lands the Dark Ones left, she’d forgotten how much she hated them.
“They can feel it,” Ingold chided softly. “Your anger. And your fear of them.” He put a hand on her waist, protective and comforting, and she felt some of her anxiety ease.
The Southgate quarter of Khirsrit—just within the massive complex of pale yellow blockhouses guarding the land road into Hathyobar—seemed to consist almost entirely of ruins: shattered churc...hes, broken-backed mansions studded with demon-scares and some of the crudest statues of the saints Gil had ever seen, clapped-out warehouses lined streets whose paving-stones had long ago been mined for repairs. Gil had thought the stink was bad in the back corridors of the Keep. Here, night soil and garbage were out in the open, untrammeled by anything resembling Minalde’s efforts at regulation. No wonder they got hit with the plague!
The surprise was that anyone was left alive at all.MoreLess
“They can feel it,” Ingold chided softly. “Your anger. And your fear of them.” He put a hand on her waist, protective and comforting, and she felt some of her anxiety ease.
The Southgate quarter of Khirsrit—just within the massive complex of pale yellow blockhouses guarding the land road into Hathyobar—seemed to consist almost entirely of ruins: shattered churc...hes, broken-backed mansions studded with demon-scares and some of the crudest statues of the saints Gil had ever seen, clapped-out warehouses lined streets whose paving-stones had long ago been mined for repairs. Gil had thought the stink was bad in the back corridors of the Keep. Here, night soil and garbage were out in the open, untrammeled by anything resembling Minalde’s efforts at regulation. No wonder they got hit with the plague!
The surprise was that anyone was left alive at all.MoreLess
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