The Scar (2002)
“Daylight lasted longer as the weeks progressed, but still early every evening the light had gone and the stretched-out, sticky summer night drained the city of strength.
There were half-hearted fights at the junctions of ridings. Bravos from Garwater out drinking might end up in the same bar as a group of Dry Fallers. At first there would be nothing but a few surly murmurs: the Garwater lads might mutter about leech lovers or daemon’s bum-boys. The Dry Fall mob would make a loud joke or two about perverts at the helm, and laugh too much at bad puns about cutting.
A few drinks or sniffs or puffs later and the punches would be thrown, but somehow the antagonists’ energies rarely seemed entirely in the fray. They did what they expected of themselves—little more than that.
By midnight the streets were clearing out, and by two or three they were mostly empty.
The drone from the surrounding ships never dimmed. There were factories and workshops in various industrial districts, perched stink...ing and smoke-bawling on the arse-ends of old ships, which did not stop.MoreLess
There were half-hearted fights at the junctions of ridings. Bravos from Garwater out drinking might end up in the same bar as a group of Dry Fallers. At first there would be nothing but a few surly murmurs: the Garwater lads might mutter about leech lovers or daemon’s bum-boys. The Dry Fall mob would make a loud joke or two about perverts at the helm, and laugh too much at bad puns about cutting.
A few drinks or sniffs or puffs later and the punches would be thrown, but somehow the antagonists’ energies rarely seemed entirely in the fray. They did what they expected of themselves—little more than that.
By midnight the streets were clearing out, and by two or three they were mostly empty.
The drone from the surrounding ships never dimmed. There were factories and workshops in various industrial districts, perched stink...ing and smoke-bawling on the arse-ends of old ships, which did not stop.MoreLess
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