The Motive for Massacre (The Kinless Trilogy Book 2) by Philbrook Chris

The Motive for Massacre (The Kinless Trilogy Book 2) by Philbrook Chris

Author:Philbrook, Chris [Philbrook, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction
Published: 2014-05-15T16:00:00+00:00


Umaryn was right. When James awoke, the train was cresting over a series of small hills and pulling into the rainy city of Davisville. Davisville sat against the great western sea of Elmoryn, a cold and unforgiving body of water that consumed sailor's lives with great regularity, especially this far north. The city proper rested nestled against a sloping hill that started with the few meager piers of Davisville. They extended into the brackish coastal bay like the rigid fingers of a muddied skeleton. Several small boats rested there, tied snug against the piers.

The homes and businesses of Davisville were stark and cold like the land of The Northern Protectorate. Most of Elmoryn's concrete supply came from the NP, and the residents used their great natural resource more frequently in construction than anywhere else. Homes were slate gray almost as a rule, and were contained to squat one or two story structures made entirely of wooden beams and concrete blocks. Roofs were made of slanted thatch, or shingles cut from the sparse trees of the NP. A few of the homes and businesses dared to reach as high as three or four stories tall, and they stood out against the rest of the city like the black space in the smile of a man missing a front tooth. To the southern end of the city a larger complex of buildings could be seen, set slightly away from the homes nearby. It too was made of gray stone, and looked to be a military keep.

The Davisville train station was nowhere near as robust as Daris', having only three tracks for loading and unloading. It too was a low built gray building, standing against the cold rains of the NP sluggishly, impassively. But all of this was lost in the face of why people came to Davisville. The sole reason why a city so glum even existed in a nation so new, and so disorganized.

The territory of Davisville sloped higher and higher up a hill as the coast slinked along to the north, forming an imposing cliff, hundreds of feet tall, and sheer. It loomed over the city, casting a shadow that stretched over each home intangibly, leaving a mark to tell everyone why they were there, and to what they owed their safety. Atop that cliff, perched on the edge and leaning over it, daring gravity, was House Kulare, the sprawling and immense gothic castle, and home of the greatest school of The Way in all of Elmoryn. Turrets on the castle walls were delicate, like stalagmites, and the building itself wide and ornamented in gargoyles, carvings, and impossibly intricate stonework that made the building almost look alive. Ivy and vines, flowering in white and milky orange climbed the outer walls of the castle and the keep inside as well. Even from over a mile away the school had an airy, elite feel to it, but a sinister purpose radiated out, telling everyone that dark secrets were available inside the doors, daring those who looked up to pay the price of admission.



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