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The carriage rolled through the city streets and up a gentle slope that led to the west of the metropolis proper. The building styles changed. The rigid Georgian fashion fell away and was replaced by peaked oval arches and ornate, towering roofs that stabbed the sky with their peaks. There were more oval windows, especially in the upper floors, and rounded columns held up the two-floor buildings.
"It looks like we just entered the Middle Ages," I mused as we passed a church with a towering steeple.
"Middle of what age?" Asher asked me.
I shook my head. "It's a long story, but does this design mean these are older houses?"
He nodded. "Yes. The earliest settlers were said to have lived close to the waters, but those who grew wealthy on the fishing trade built more fashionable ho
