The Trader Team On Merseia

After the audience chamber, Falkayn sees a little more of Merseia. See:

In And Around Castle Afon

The trader team allows us to see Merseia through the eyes not only of a Hermetian human being but also of a Cynthian and a Wodenite. The Cynthian, Chee Lan, flies to a night-time rendezvous. See:

Chee Lan In Flight

Before that, she watches, on the spaceship viewscreen, as:

night falls;
Neihevin rises, full, Luna-sized and copper-colored;
Lythyr, already risen, is a small, pale crescent;
forests glisten with frost;
Rigel blazes in the middle of a constellation called the Spear Bearer.

While she flies:

the chill air feels liquid;
the hum of her gravity harness is lost in an enormous silence;
she sees campfires and hears a song from the Merseian troopers guarding the ship;
a hovercraft passes athwart the Milky Way;
she flies above wilderness covered in snow, then above fields, villages and castles, then above a seacoast and the city of Ardaig with its phosphorescent paving and River Oiss.

Ardaig, unTechnic, neither gleams nor brawls. The bay has a triple moonglade as Wythna rises. Machines murmur. Chee Lan lands in the darkling Old Quarter.

There is more but maybe not now.