If the road into Berona had been teeming with people, Berona itself seemed on the verge of overflowing. All around, men and women charged about the streets as though each one of them was late for something, but none of them knew what. Enormous white stone buildings rose into the sky on either side of the main thoroughfare, taller than any Ella had ever seen, with rows upon rows of windows, semi-circular balconies, and
