Savine leisurely took in Fest city's sights as the carriage trudged on. As for the palace, naturally, it was located at the city's center. The area in its immediate surroundings was the best the city had to offer, so Savine didn't find any flaws in them.
Here, the duchy didn't feel like one that lost a civil war. It was the same situation on the southern side of the city. That was the place where most of the Honorary nobles and scholars lived. To the south-west, the craftspeople gathered. To the northwest, the low-middle class lived, and that was where most of the farmland was concentrated.
But the whole east side of the city was basically the slums. It didn't help that Fest city was shaped like an elongated sideways ellipse, so it wasn't that the east was just a small corner of Fest city. It was literally 30% of the whole city.
