K. A. Applegate - Everworld 05 by Discover the Destroyer

Author:Discover the Destroyer [Destroyer, Discover the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

We turned right at the fork. Long before we reached it we saw the marketplace. It was, to put it mildly, different from the fastidiously neat, well-ordered Fairy Land we’d gotten used to.

“That is the biggest damn garage sale I’ve ever seen,”

Christopher said.

It covered acres. Maybe a square mile but forming a rough, unkempt circle. At the center was an open space, a traffic circle with avenues radiating out in every direction. Connecting the paved avenues was an irregular network of unpaved streets. And within each pie wedge and trapezoid thus formed were buildings ranging from lean-to stalls covered with red-, green-, or yellow-striped canvas, up through one-story shops, and here and there a few genuinely large buildings, two, three stories tall, ornately faced with rococo moldings and roofed in a sort of pale blue tile. Not always but generally the more low-rent places were farther out toward the boundaries of the market. The bigger places predominated at the center, giving the impression of a scale-model cityscape, with “skyscrapers” defining the

“downtown.”

If there was any other organization to the place it seemed to involve keeping most of the beasts, the sheep, cows, pigs, and horses, in what could be considered the northeast quadrant.

The road we were on led to the market. Another road led out, presumably heading off to the unseen city.

Within the market the avenues and streets were choked with people. From this distance it was hard to be sure what type of people, but even at a distance I could see that they ranged widely in size, shape, and color.

The beet wagon was gaining on us again. We started moving.

I was feeling better. We all were. Hard to imagine anything very terrible happening at the mall.

To our relief there was no gatekeeper charging an entrance tax for the market. We pushed through a knot of dwarfs bargaining with a pair of Coo-Hatch and headed down the avenue.

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