VIII | Plato’s Cave
Shekalane gazed up at the inscription on the gigantic archway—which extended from one bank of the River Dire to another— and read:
WELCOME TO TRAUMNOVELLE
“Abandon All Inhibition Ye Who Enter Here”
She glanced at Dravidian as they passed beneath it—who looked back at her and raised a single, swooped brow—then gasped aloud as she saw what was on the other side: for there were two bronze statues there, one on each bank of the river; a male and a female, both completely nude, and each fully half the height of Ursathrax so that they towered like Titans in the mist, and such was the beauty and sumptuous symmetry of their faces and bodies, and so graceful was the way they reached out to each other, their great fingertips not quite touching, that Shekalane couldn’t help bu
