Fountain Street And A Fight Scene

The Winter Of The World, V. 

We continue to learn the street geography of Arvanneth until the end of this chapter where we also find a typical Andersonian fight scene.

Josserek and Donya must hasten back to Casiru's house in order not to walk through the Lairs at night. Fountain Street is the boundary. On one side of the street are the Lairs. On the other, dwellers barricade themselves in for the night. Pelican Lane takes the pair to Fountain Square, full of twenty mounted Imperial troops, probably about to raid the Lairs. They retreat and enter the deserted, littered Lairs streets from another direction. Casiru's house has been raided. Troops from within it and from two other buildings emerge to arrest the two foreigners. Like some other Andersonian heroes, Josserek is able to fight, run and evade capture and that is a good place to stop reading for this evening.