The Lost Queen
The Lost Queen
“The cloudless sky was a grainy gray-blue and seemed to shimmer like water reflecting off a shield of brushed steel. Tania and Edric and the princesses were standing in the shade of a long brick wall, gazing across the road at a four-story block of flats set back off the street behind tall poplar trees and hedges of privet and fuchsia and yew.
The elegant block was of warm brown brickwork, with balconies and angular bays and wide white-framed windows.
Traffic moved steadily along the road. A sig...n stood above a low brick wall that fronted the hedges and trees.
Dover Court Park Lane Hampton Wick Kingston-Upon-Thames If Sancha was right, then Lilith Mariner owned flat 7 in this block.
They were very close to Hampton Court Palace—the diminished mortal echo of the great Royal Palace of Faerie—but they had not come here via the direct route from Richmond. Once on the Underground they had headed north, taking the first train and changing three or four times, moving from the District Line to the Piccadilly Line to the Northern Line and then doubling back and heading south of the Thames to Waterloo, where they caught an over-ground train to Hampton Wick, a five-minute walk from where they were now standing.MoreLess
The elegant block was of warm brown brickwork, with balconies and angular bays and wide white-framed windows.
Traffic moved steadily along the road. A sig...n stood above a low brick wall that fronted the hedges and trees.
Dover Court Park Lane Hampton Wick Kingston-Upon-Thames If Sancha was right, then Lilith Mariner owned flat 7 in this block.
They were very close to Hampton Court Palace—the diminished mortal echo of the great Royal Palace of Faerie—but they had not come here via the direct route from Richmond. Once on the Underground they had headed north, taking the first train and changing three or four times, moving from the District Line to the Piccadilly Line to the Northern Line and then doubling back and heading south of the Thames to Waterloo, where they caught an over-ground train to Hampton Wick, a five-minute walk from where they were now standing.MoreLess
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