Chapter 509: The Twilight Edge
Tala and Rane buckled down to learn what they could in their limited time with the Pack.
As their third week came and went, Lerra informed them that they could only stay another week or so without starting to be in danger of harming themselves due to temporal torsion.
Thus, they would spend a total of four weeks within the Lunar Hunt, seemingly equal to four days for Zeme.
They were having a wonderful time—with the sole exception of confirming that advancement to Paragon did not allow them to conceive a child—and learning much, but they were still left with a hard decision before them.
Once they left the Lunar Hunt, they could go to the northwest, aiming for one of the city sites that were under either preparation or construction—Tala had always wanted to see those—or they could go more northeast and end up on the wandering plains, where the moving settlements of humanity—and some arcanes—could usually be found.
She really did want to track down Howlton and see what had happened with the clockwork thunder, especially now that she understood what a cell actually was and knew that the thunder was most likely a prisoner within one.
That said, there was a sense of danger and adventure involved in preparing new city sites and then building the new cities that appealed to her. Moreover, it was a mystery that she wanted to investigate. She couldn’t truly comprehend how it would work, even if she understood most parts of the process.
At least ten years of site prep, then roughly twenty five years of construction with an average loss in the neighborhood of sixteen people per day at each given site—obviously biased toward the beginning of the ventures, and usually in bigger groups spaced out rather than actually occurring per day. It’s a heavy toll to pay for a city for a million people to call home.
-And that doesn’t factor in the loss of life getting the citizens to the new city…-