Wings of Fire, page 22
It was hard to see it down below, when she was part of the thousands of milling human beings and penned in by streets and walls and harbor guards and the great unknown – but from up here, it all suddenly looked familiar to Simonis, every single stone and cobble and mule’s bray and mosaic tessera of it. It lay as though in the palm of her hand, this place they called the City of Gold, and somehow she knew it. She knew it. She was too young to understand the feeling or to shape it into something coherent or profound – but standing up there high above Visant and looking down upon it Simonis summarised it to herself with simple, forthright logic, a single thought that was formed in the clarity of a child’s mind, as yet unburdened with too many layers of adult complexity and complication. A single word.
Home.
She had been born far from this place, in a small town with a tiny Hippodrome of its own – but she had been a baby then, and it hadn’t mattered. The Cyrenais of her earliest childhood was barely a memory now, and she let it go without grief, without sadness, without regret. It might never have existed at all.
This did. This place. This great city at her feet.
Home.
I am home.
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Alma Alexander's life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has lived and worked in seven countries on four continents (and in cyberspace!), has climbed mountains, dived in coral reefs, flown small planes, swum with dolphins, touched two-thousand-year-old tiles in a gate out of Babylon. She is a novelist, anthologist and short story writer who currently shares her life between the Pacific Northwest of the USA (where she lives with her husband and two cats) and the wonderful fantasy worlds of her own imagination.
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Wings of Fire
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