Chapter Twenty-Six
After three more days of traveling, they passed by two more villages before coming to a towering city. As they approached, they slowed to gaze upon its beauty. They approached on the evening of the third day. Searon’s eyes grew wide with the view of the city. Nearly fourteen years had gone by since he had seen the place, and the changes were astounding.
Before, there had been many large stone, brick, and wooden buildings, all finely made. Now Searon saw towering buildings hundreds of paces into the sky, and they were all made of brick and stone. One of the towers stretched taller than them all and seemed to be hexagonal in shape. The entire city was circled in a stone wall thirty paces tall. Searon only remembered it being twenty paces in height when he lived there.
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