A crowd mills;
tent-cloth is rainbowed but faded;
overhead lamps out-glare the stars;
a multi-colored glass cylinder rotates around the brightest light;
a hawker chants his wares;
a barker chants of games of chance;
a cook chants of frying spiceballs;
nords throw libra coins at dancing girls;
visitors dance to the melody of blind and crippled musicians;
magicians and jugglers stroll between jostling riverside men and tinerans;
"Perched here and there upon wagons, the lucks of Waybreak watched" (p. 155);
(they do more than watch;)
Ivar sees Fraina, nearly naked, held by a middle-aged, wealthy-looking local.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Indeed, those "lucks" did more than simply watch! They inflamed and amplified the emotions of the tinerans, so that they would be far more VOLATILE and irrational than they would have been if there were not "lucks" there.
As I've said before, Fraina was no LADY.
Ad astra! Sean
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