-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 339-606 AT p. 499.
The Kazan is a large astrobleme on the continent of Rodna on the planet, Dennitza. Lake Stoyan and the Dennitzan capital, Zorkagrad, are at the centre of the Kazan which is filled with woods, farms and rivers. The Dubina Dolyina province takes its name from a gorge cut through the Kazan ringwall by the Lyubisha River.
Danilo Vymezal is voivode of Dubina Dolyina. The Vymezal estate is on high ground, overlooking farm, forest and river. There is an outer gate, then a driveway through gardens and parks. The tile-roofed, half-timbered, brick manor has a rear court surrounded by servants' cottages, garages, sheds, stables, mews, workshops, bakery, brewery, armoury, recreation hall, school and chapel. Dennitzans have lived thus for centuries but now are under threat.
The voivode receives Flandry in the darkly wainscoted, heavily furnished, third storey Gray Chamber, decorated with rugs and drapes, which has a doubly thick door for confidentiality.
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Kaor, Paul!
And I remember the voivode saying, with some contempt, that at least in his own house, the Gray Champer, he could speak with the assurance of discussions being confidential. Unlike Zorkagrad, rife with spies and treachery.
Sean
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