Given all of Fen's anticipation connected to what he thought the city of Brikaz would look like, when its walls finally emerged from beyond the line of the horizon, only a single word could accurately describe it.
Disappointment.
'Isn't it's layout roughly… the same as in Akhaz?'
Thanks to the relatively higher position of the coach when compared to a huge plain on which the city sprawled, Fen could scan its entire shape, as if it didn't have its walls in the first place. At this point, the young man could also confirm one big difference between all the settlements on the merchants' road and the city that stood guard at the entrance to the imperial highway.
The tolls.
