116 A Sea Full Of Stars

Words alone could not properly describe what he had felt when he first laid eyes upon the splendor of Mardeimus, the Pearl of the South. The old, weathered city possessed a beauty not unlike Citlai in that it could rouse the spirits of those who beheld it.

More than a dozen lifetimes ago, it'd been called something else by those who had actually built the city — Ametzcalli. The Ancient Mulians thought that they'd created something that approached the unique, sublime beauty that only nature's creations seemed to be endowed with…

As far as Reed was concerned, they had been right about their judgment. He'd almost immediately come to the conclusion that the only thing that could surpass it in beauty was Citlai, which was saying a lot.