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Chapter 58 - Chapter 58 - City

The depths…

I looked down at the ground, at the faint reflection of my face in the white marble. The light from above rippled through it, faint and trembling, like moonlight over shallow water.

"What about all this?" I asked, raising my head toward the massive dome that covered the skies. "How did you do all this? Is it another illusion? Or something else entirely?"

The Chieftain's gaze lingered in his cup for a while, the amber liquid swirling slow and lazy under his thumb. His face gave nothing away, but his eyes---his eyes carried the same distant weight I'd seen earlier when he'd traced his hand across the desk in his chambers.

"Something else entirely," he said finally. Then he stood, setting the cup aside. "Come. I'll show you to your room."

I watched him go for just a second. He had very clearly deflected the topic. 

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