For several hours, boulders a little larger than a man’s head rained down on the city, tearing down walls, crushing rooftops, and crushing to splinters Lascombe’s own siege engines. Chiyo was furious. Forced to take cover with some of his generals at the base of the thick eastern wall, he started...
Usually the three orbs continued blistering the citizens until they literally smoldered in anticipation of cooler weather. But today offered a delightful respite from the heat. While thin smears of clouds drifted lazily across a blue sky, people basked in the orblight or else shivered in the shad...