The Crown Tournament by Shami Stovall & Ryan Tang

Author:Shami Stovall & Ryan Tang [Stovall, Shami & Tang, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Capital Station Books
Published: 2023-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

I hadn’t been paying attention before, because my thoughts had been focused on the refugees, but the city of Santtia was massive. I wandered down road after road after road, passing hundreds of people. I got lost. So very lost.

Hours went by, and I knew I had to make my way back to the massive restaurant. It was a place of lights, wasn’t it? But everywhere had lights. All the buildings, the walls, the merchant stalls—it was wondrous. My mouth was open half the time as I took everything in.

People stared at me, but I just couldn’t stop myself from gawking.

How did someone live here? How could you possibly remember everyone’s name?

“Wren, is this the restaurant?” I asked. “Do you remember?”

“I think it’s this way?” Wren replied as he scurried alongside me. The people of Santtia gave him an odd glance, but no one spoke to us. Which was odd. Everyone in the previous town had been so friendly—the people here were colder. “Dario said the building with the big gold fish, right?”

“Yeah.” I nodded, staring up at the multi-story buildings. “It’s the one Sage pointed out to us from over the wall. I just can’t believe it’s this big!”

And then we found it. At night, they had a fire pit out front with flames that reached several feet out up into the air. Glowstones in the shape of fish were hung from all the windows, and some even placed on the roof. The four-story restaurant glittered like a jewel, and sparkled with so much energy, I felt invigorated just looking at it.

“Wow,” Wren whispered.

We walked closer, and I realized there were crowds of people gathered outside, all funneling their way into the restaurant.

The building was made out of handsome burnt red wood, and each of the floors had large glass windows. Inside, I spotted customers eating at round tables covered with white tablecloths.

The black roof was pointed and angular, sloping upwards. Just like I’d seen outside, it had a large fish insignia created from inlaid gold.

“How many people are eating inside?” I asked. “There’s too many to count…”

Wren just shook his head in disbelief. “This is bigger than any cave I’ve ever seen.”

“Tell me about it. I can’t believe this is bigger than my house. No wonder Master Elias said that Morrumbi Town wasn’t impressive.”

“What do you think Dario will talk about?” Wren asked. “He seemed super nice. And he knew a lot about eldrin—even more than Sage!”

“Yeah,” I replied. “Plus, he dislikes the East-Sea Raiders. It’d be great if we could add him to our team. No offense to Valdo, but I bet Dario would be stronger than him.”

“That’d be amazing!” Wren puffed out his face and held his head high. “Then we’d have the best team ever.”

A long stream of customers walked into the restaurant. All of them wore fine clothes, sort of like what Brock had worn at the tournament, only even nicer.

Some of the outfits looked outrageous.

There was a woman wearing a dress that trailed onto the ground behind her for another four feet.

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