Аннотация
Fortress In The Eye Of Time
Fortress, Book 1
C. J. Cherryh
1995
For Lynn and Jane for a lot of hours ... through the lightning strikes and the rest of it
Chapter I
Its name had been Galasien once, a city of broad streets and thriving markets, of docks crowded with bright-sailed river craft. The shrines of its gods and heroes, their altars asmoke with incense offerings, had watched over commerce and statecraft, lords and ladies, workmen and peasant farmers alike, in long and pleasant prosperity.
Its name under the Sihhé lords had been Ynefel. For nine centuries four towers reigned here under that name as the forest crept closer. The one-time citadel of the Galasieni in those years stood no longer as the heart of a city, but as a ruin-girt keep, stronghold of the foreign Sihhé kings, under whom the river Lenfialim’s shores had known a rule of unprecedented and far-reaching power, a darker reign from its beginning, and darker ...
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