The Dark Device of the Great Chasm, Chapter 7

Amates 19, 1277. Town of Banye, on the Planus continent, northeast of Ishnanor.

    I was covered in soot. Wood smoke, which stung my eyes, was everywhere.

   Where there weren’t spots of soot on me, there was grime. I smelled burnt hair, which I think was mine, but I hadn’t had time to check. Overall, I felt like a dusky-skinned Chivit smudge leopard in a bad need of a nap.
 
  The fire, bad as it was, hadn’t spread very far by the time Tyre pulled the Sheldrake into Banye at a hard gallop. One bui...