Chapter 34: The Gates of Crestfall

Chapter 34: The Gates of Crestfall

Crestfall was built on water.

That was the first thing Kael understood approaching it from the south — not a city built beside a river the way Valdenmoor was built beside its old roads, but a city built on the river delta itself, the buildings rising from a network of channels and bridges and reclaimed land that gave the whole place the particular quality of something that had decided to exist somewhere difficult and had made it work through sheer accumulated effort.

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