The Dinosaur Lords
“A common type of sea dragon, a swimming reptile resembling a fish, with long, tooth-filled jaws (or, some fancy, the fabulous dolphins depicted in The Bestiary of Old Home); 2–4 meters long; 950 kilograms. Eats fish, shellfish, cephalopods, and occasionally each other. Sailors’ tales notwithstanding, rarely known to attack humans.
—THE BOOK OF TRUE NAMES The smell met Jaume like a barrier when he entered the tent. It felt like emerging from a cool cloister into a hot and humid night. If the... night blossoms outside the ruined temple down the valley had smelled like a corpse rotting in a perfume lake, the man waiting for him smelled like a corpse thrown into a cesspit, with a wheel of lamentably far-gone cheese thrown in to add body.
“My lord Bishop,” he made himself say politely. He went to the end of the table opposite his guest and sat in a folding wooden chair, on a satin cushion colored cream and butterscotch. Leaning back jauntily, he cocked a leg over one arm.MoreLess
—THE BOOK OF TRUE NAMES The smell met Jaume like a barrier when he entered the tent. It felt like emerging from a cool cloister into a hot and humid night. If the... night blossoms outside the ruined temple down the valley had smelled like a corpse rotting in a perfume lake, the man waiting for him smelled like a corpse thrown into a cesspit, with a wheel of lamentably far-gone cheese thrown in to add body.
“My lord Bishop,” he made himself say politely. He went to the end of the table opposite his guest and sat in a folding wooden chair, on a satin cushion colored cream and butterscotch. Leaning back jauntily, he cocked a leg over one arm.MoreLess
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