Chapter 25Loman stopped abruptly as he strode out along the broad curving corridor. ‘What’s the rush, man?’ he muttered to himself. ‘What’s the rush?’ There was so much to do these days. But he didn’t have to do it all at full tilt, did he?
Satisfied with his own answer he prescribed himself a brief pause in the sun-laden air and, sitting down on a low window-sill, he leaned back against the warm stone and closed his eyes.
Anderras Darion had become the focus of Orthlund. People were coming to it from all over the country. Yet there was ample room for them all. Loman wondered again what kind of people had built such a place, and why, and how many it once might have held. It seemed as though it could hold the entire population of Orthlund and still feel spacious and empty. For all his fam
