sound reaching out to the deep blue of a placid sea. Squat palm trees lined the landward side of the road and beyond them, green parklands stretched to the foothills of craggy red-grey mountains.
The road curved gently around the shallow bay, coming to a point where rugged cliffs met the sea, and perched atop the cliffs, like something formed from the land itself, there was a multi-towered building.
The old fort?
‘How do you get to it?’ Kate asked, staring up now at the sheer cliffs.
‘There is a way from the inland side,’ Fareed explained. ‘And a secret way from the sea. Once it was a place of refuge for the fishermen who lived along the shore, but now it is deserted, except for the caretakers and some artisans who are restoring parts that have deteriorated.’
As they rounded the corner, Kate turned back to look again, marvelling at the beauty of the structure and wondering how on earth it had been built on such an impossible site.
But they were passing the fishing village now, the colourful boats tied up along the shore, and beyond the village high mud brick walls—
‘Another fort?’
‘The palace,’ Fareed replied.
She was here!
In Amberach!
With her bridegroom?
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