The Singer of All Songs
“All day long the sailors had been sniffing the air, as the distinctive sulphur stench of the island drifted across the waves toward them and seeped below the decks into every cranny of the ship. With each breath, Calwyn imagined a yellow stain furring her nostrils and throat; the air was thick, tainted, metallic. She couldn’t believe that people lived and walked about and ate their meals in this overpowering stink.
The two ships had dropped anchor at one of the many small rocky islands that lay... sprinkled around Doryus. This was the pirates’ base, the place where they counted their coins and fought and fished and repaired their boats, where they grew their slava and kept their women. Like all the Doryan islands, it was a fierce, hot and lawless place. There were few tall trees; the huts that huddled by the shallow harbour were built of stones and thatched with wild seagrass. Slava bushes struggled up, stunted and rusty-looking, from the cracks between the rocks, and the acrid stench of slava mingled with the smell of sulphur.MoreLess
The two ships had dropped anchor at one of the many small rocky islands that lay... sprinkled around Doryus. This was the pirates’ base, the place where they counted their coins and fought and fished and repaired their boats, where they grew their slava and kept their women. Like all the Doryan islands, it was a fierce, hot and lawless place. There were few tall trees; the huts that huddled by the shallow harbour were built of stones and thatched with wild seagrass. Slava bushes struggled up, stunted and rusty-looking, from the cracks between the rocks, and the acrid stench of slava mingled with the smell of sulphur.MoreLess
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