In the scorching midday sun, the noblemen's hawks still soared between the towering spires.
About one-third of the way up the tower, there were layered red rooftops of varying heights.
Between the crowded wooden and stone houses, fences and low walls formed the streets.
On the potholed road, vagrants and cattle horses mingled together, all the same dung-yellow color.
When they stood side by side, you couldn't even tell who was human and who was beast.
In the concentric circles centered around the High Castle Church, beyond the inner circle of residences, the outermost layer comprised various workshops.
These included a paper-making workshop, a leather workshop, a blacksmith shop, a general store, but mostly dye workshops and breweries.
The Thousand River Valley exported over fifty percent of the Leia Kingdom's dyes and was the kingdom's second-largest exporter of spirits.
Amid these workshops was the crooked Mermaid Tavern.
