Servant of the Dragon
“As she picked her way through the time-ravaged stonework, she tried to place it in the context of what she had read.
She couldn't. There were hints in Rigal's epic The Wanderings of Dann and shadowings in Almsdor's equally-ancient The Birth of the Gods. The sources contradicted each other—and in the case of Almsdor, contradicted himself. This palace, this ancient city, was older than myth itself.
But it was real.
Occasionally blocks had tumbled into her path, displaying squared features and intricate carvings to the moonlight, but they weren't a serious obstacle. The trees growing in what had been a plaza were the real barrier, and in some places Sharina found them almost impenetrable.
The buildings to either side of the boulevard were so overgrown that by daylight she wouldn't have been certain they were there except that hills weren't so regularly linear. The moon's white light slipped between the trunks to brilliantly illuminate the stones beneath. Sometimes the black rectangle of ...a doorway gaped; sometimes a face, stylized but recognizably reptilian, glared out at her.MoreLess
She couldn't. There were hints in Rigal's epic The Wanderings of Dann and shadowings in Almsdor's equally-ancient The Birth of the Gods. The sources contradicted each other—and in the case of Almsdor, contradicted himself. This palace, this ancient city, was older than myth itself.
But it was real.
Occasionally blocks had tumbled into her path, displaying squared features and intricate carvings to the moonlight, but they weren't a serious obstacle. The trees growing in what had been a plaza were the real barrier, and in some places Sharina found them almost impenetrable.
The buildings to either side of the boulevard were so overgrown that by daylight she wouldn't have been certain they were there except that hills weren't so regularly linear. The moon's white light slipped between the trunks to brilliantly illuminate the stones beneath. Sometimes the black rectangle of ...a doorway gaped; sometimes a face, stylized but recognizably reptilian, glared out at her.MoreLess
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