But when I saw the outside, my heart stopped. I’d known some weird magic was at work—there was no way a house this huge fit in the little Cape Cod home I’d seen on the street. That hadn’t prepared me, however, for the city outside the bedroom windows. It seemed Noctus’s home was built into the side of a small mountain. An entire city occupied the lower half of the mountain. The city was built in semi-circle tiers, with smaller levels at the top and larger levels at the bottom.
more than a few then ...
