Tuesday, July 16, 2013

"She reached the square...

...and wandered through the chaos, her movements synchronizing themselves to the rhythms of mystical Gnawa music as she dodged motorbikes and acrobats. Billows of grilled-meat smoke gusted thick as houses on fire, teenage boys whispered 'hashish,' and costumed water-sellers clamored 'Photo! Photo!' At a distance, she spotted the hunchback shape of Izil among the henna artists and street dentists."

                           Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone 
                           from Chapter 13, The Graverobber