Chapter 242: Proadon
Daubutim crossed his arms as he gazed out across the small city that was starting to take shape along the river Treb. He had started to get in the habit of taking the first of every ten-day to watch what was being built.
Tréanbá had been growing rapidly before, but things had sped up immensely in the last few ten-days. Two weeks ago, Portal Keep had been deemed finished and the stoneshapers redirected equally across the cities. Due to the lack of wood around Tréanbá, he and Bronwyn had decided to send most stoneshapers allotted to their cities to Tréanbá and all woodshapers to New Malorin.
Now, a massive stone harbor was being erected to the side of the city. It wasn't really needed yet, but he knew that if he didn't have it built now, it would become more difficult in decades to come. A soft plop came from beside him and a woman dressed as a guard appeared. She was the only other besides Greldo that had a shadowwalker card and she was both his bodyguard and messenger.
"Lisbeth?" he asked, focusing his eyes on her. He could feel the red lightning ripple across as he unconsciously wove around a moment of dullness that threatened to engulf him. Even now that he had mostly managed to work around his childhood issue, it still sometimes cropped up at the oddest of times.
"Lord Daubutim, the scouting ships returned tonight," she said, showing no reaction as she looked into what had to look like swirling balls of red lightning instead of eyes.
"Did they find the other end?" he asked.
He automatically held back his desire to rush back to the central hall of Tréanbá to get every bit of information he could. Besides, from the gleam in her eyes, he knew there was something else.
"Yes, my lord. Captain Jort's ship rounded the north coast, reaching the eastern shore already mapped. The mapmaker has already added everything to the central map. With Lord Bronwyn's last additions, we now have the entire coastline."
"A full coast?" Daubutim asked.
"Yes. Your assumption was correct. We are either on a very large island or a small continent," Lisbeth said.
"And what else?" Daubutim asked after a few moments.
"A large protrusion of land sits at the northeast corner, covered in a dense forest. It houses an enormous colony of Green Birds, and…"