CHAPTER SIX
Arian guided me through the maze of streets to a particularly wide one. Most of the lodges didn’t have porches but they were larger and featured windows looking into their rooms. Tables and chairs were the main decor among the buildings, and people sat around eating and chatting to their hearts’ content. The street was busy with rolling carts and pedestrians who moved to and fro delivering ingredients and appetites to the buildings. I glimpsed cabbages, kegs of beer, and more in the backs of those carts, and many a child bounced up and down as they pointed at their favorite establishment.
“Are these restaurants?” I guessed as we stopped where our street joined the larger thoroughfare.
Arian was all smiles as her shining eyes swept over the place. “Yes. Every family pri
