CHAPTER 2
The street leveled off for a block or so and then opened up ahead. The cob pulling the cart turned left and walked far enough along the edge of the square for the two wagons behind to do the same before all the drivers stopped to let their horses catch their breath from the long climb.
Penrys dodged around the cart to get an unobstructed view of the entire grand plaza, the Stone Square, the center of Stokemmi. It extended for a distance of four blocks on each side, on level ground, across a stone-paved surface. The road from the docks had led them to the middle of the southern side. The far side held institutional buildings she didn’t recognize, but on the right, she thought one long colonnaded front might mark the exchange, and on the far left, she saw the blue pennant and sec
