Ascendant's Rite (The Moontide Quartet) - Plot & Excerpts
It is upon rivers and lakes that man has learned to float and to sail, and indeed, riverboats have provided the model for windships. Rivers have been the arteries of trade on Urte for centuries, and more goods are shipped on any major river than all of the windfleets together.ORDO COSTRUO COLLEGIATE, PONTUS, 896Riverdown, near Vida, southern Kesh, on the continent of AntiopiaZulhijja (Decore) 92918th month of the MoontideRamon stared blearily across the Tigrates River. Half the army was in the water swimming, and he was on crocodile-watch. The giant reptiles, realising there was meat in the water all the time here now, were hovering on the fringes. Anyone with a touch of Animagery had to take their turn on duty, day and night, to keep them at bay. They’d lost three men before realising the danger; since then they’d killed about two dozen of the beasts, enough to deter most of them . . . but sometimes one got desperate. Crocodile meat fell somewhere between fish and chicken, with – in Ramon’s opinion – the better points of neither.
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