The Midnight Sea (The Fourth Element #1)
“Ilyas held up a fist.
I reined up. The village we sought lay just ahead, a collection of mud-brick houses the exact color of the dusty landscape. We were close enough that we should have heard the shouts of children playing, the barking of dogs. But a heavy stillness lay over the streets. The buildings crouched together, dark windows like broken teeth, and I knew the reports weren’t mistaken. Something bad had happened here.
We were four hours’ ride from Tel Khalujah in the foothills of... the Char Khala mountains that marked the empire’s northern border with Bactria. For two centuries, the jagged range had acted as a barrier against Queen Neblis and her necromancers. It was even higher and more treacherous than the Khusk range I’d grown up in and stretched all the way from the Salenian Sea to the Midnight Sea, which hemmed Bactria to the east and west.
There was no trade with Bactria, of course, and little news.MoreLess
I reined up. The village we sought lay just ahead, a collection of mud-brick houses the exact color of the dusty landscape. We were close enough that we should have heard the shouts of children playing, the barking of dogs. But a heavy stillness lay over the streets. The buildings crouched together, dark windows like broken teeth, and I knew the reports weren’t mistaken. Something bad had happened here.
We were four hours’ ride from Tel Khalujah in the foothills of... the Char Khala mountains that marked the empire’s northern border with Bactria. For two centuries, the jagged range had acted as a barrier against Queen Neblis and her necromancers. It was even higher and more treacherous than the Khusk range I’d grown up in and stretched all the way from the Salenian Sea to the Midnight Sea, which hemmed Bactria to the east and west.
There was no trade with Bactria, of course, and little news.MoreLess
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