“Proximity is of great value to these people, isn't it.” Zya saw this every time that she turned from one scene to another.
“Absolutely. When one lives in such a climate, proximity is necessity. Consider my tribe. We move to where we can find food. The same can be said metaphorically for these people. Fortunately for the stonemasons, the rock is easily accessible, and they had created huge pits in which they toiled to excavate rock on the Southern side of the city. Your father remarked on this when we first arrived, saying that it was not defence that was the reason for the smaller wall in the North, though the bluffs and sharp drops did their job very well, it was money. Moving all that rock across the river would have taken a massive chunk out of the profits of such an endeavour as buil
