CHAPTER TWELVE
Sophia felt the heat beating down on her like a club as their ship came into port in Morgassa. Sienne wound against her legs, and Sophia could only imagine what the forest cat was feeling with her layers of fur.
“We’re here,” Sophia said to Lucas and Kate as they stared at the city alongside her. “We actually made it to Morgassa.”
They had made good time, the wind in their favor for almost all of the journey south. Now, the capital of the other kingdom stood before them in a series of low white buildings with flat roofs. Even the larger buildings, the granaries and the palace, the warehouses and the market, were built in the same style. The dark-skinned people of the city bustled about doing all the kinds of tasks that Sophia might have seen in Ashton, plus plenty that sh
