Starfield:Shadow House
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| ID | xx175C83 | ||
| Editor ID | SFBGS001_EAW_CDV_Book_BleakHouse_m | ||
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CHAPTER I IN PRAYER Dazra. The Shrouding nearly here, and a Herald preaching in the Scaled Citadel. Implacable Va'ruun'kai weather. As much dust in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the planet, and it would not be wonderful to meet an ancient Aceles, forty feet long or so, waddling like an avatar of the Great Serpent, wandering up Jinan Plaza. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, falling gently to the ground, with flakes of ash and dust abundant and forlorn - gone into mourning, one might imagine, as the hulk of the Mourning blocks out the sun.
Groats, undistinguishable in mire. Our own people, scarcely better; dirty to their eyeballs. Foot passengers, jostling one another in a general infection of ill temper, and losing their foot-hold at street-corners, where dozens of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of dirt, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest. But praise Him! For the Great Serpent sees our glorious suffering, and tests both our humor and resolve!
[Considered by some experts to be the best novel Charok Va'ruun had ever written, Shadow House is a scathing satire of life in Dazra, and a true testament to our belief in, and reliance on, the infinitesimal benevolence of the Great Serpent.]
