“The district is a hive of movement and sound, busier on a regular day than most markets are on festival days. Sparks fly from hammers as big as my head, forge fires glow a red deeper than blood, and cottony plumes of steam erupt every few feet from freshly quenched swords. Blacksmiths shout orders as apprentices jostle to follow them. And above it all, the strain and pump of hundreds of bellows, creaking like a fleet of ships in a storm.”
― An Ember in the Ashes
― An Ember in the Ashes
“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”
― The Early Classics of Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / The Secret Adversary
― The Early Classics of Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles / The Secret Adversary
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