Chapter 14 - Fourteen. Damsel

Chapter 14: Chapter Fourteen. Damsel

The festival of Radiant Dawn had transformed Solara into a city with something between a celebration and a riot. Every street was flooded with worshippers in white robes, their hymns rising in layered waves above the noise of the crowd as they pushed forward beneath swaying golden banners.

Priests leaned out from temple balconies overhead, shouting prayers down at the masses below. The air had turned thick with incense smoke that clung to everything, wrapping itself around the sharper smells of roasting meat and wine being poured freely in the open streets.

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