Those Below: the Empty Throne book 2
“Late morning but the streets were uncrowded, the few passers-by going about their business with languid grace, like the canals, like the Eternal against whom they patterned their lives. The custodian at the entrance to the Second, clad in blue robes and a wide smile, his ferule leaning listless against the wall, waved her through without comment.
The Second Rung was busier and louder, and it was only set against the wonders of the First that one might find complaint. Calla turned down a narrow ...but pleasant thoroughfare, footfalls ringing against cobblestone. She had arranged quarters for the Aelerians a short distance from the First, in a small corner of the Rung that specialised in the sale of books and parchment. Calla passed long rows of these shops, the walls and doors formed of intricately carved white oak, and hanging from the open shutters bits of bright paper, smiling strands of colour against the dark wood. In the doorway of one of these, a girl just on the merry cusp of adolescence and her younger sibling set a toy boat down into the gutters that ran, moatlike, on either side of the street, smiled and clapped as it continued bravely downslope and towards the sea.MoreLess
The Second Rung was busier and louder, and it was only set against the wonders of the First that one might find complaint. Calla turned down a narrow ...but pleasant thoroughfare, footfalls ringing against cobblestone. She had arranged quarters for the Aelerians a short distance from the First, in a small corner of the Rung that specialised in the sale of books and parchment. Calla passed long rows of these shops, the walls and doors formed of intricately carved white oak, and hanging from the open shutters bits of bright paper, smiling strands of colour against the dark wood. In the doorway of one of these, a girl just on the merry cusp of adolescence and her younger sibling set a toy boat down into the gutters that ran, moatlike, on either side of the street, smiled and clapped as it continued bravely downslope and towards the sea.MoreLess
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