Chapter 24
LANA WAITED at the front of the room, nervously looking over the audience.
The Scriptorium’s student astronomy meeting was still a bit light on attendance, because of the absence of all the fourth year meteorology students, but the news from last month’s controversial meeting had spread and everyone else was there.
At the last meeting, Lana had presented the theory posed by Tamerane in the City of Glass, that the world was round and that the City of Glass was at the pole and Tiverius close to the middle.
It challenged the prevailing view that the world was an island set in a large sea where the water fell off the edges into an abyss. There had been a lot of talk in the corridors in the days following that meeting. And, apparently, some of the third year students had been rid
