Kingdoms of the Wall (1992)
“This was the limit of his previous explorations; and it was, he said, by far the most dismal of the Kingdoms of the Wall. "In what way?" I asked him, thinking of the squalid snuffling of the long-tailed prisoners within the Kavnalla's cave, and the apparent soullessness of those spidery-limbed gray creatures of the high trails who had given themselves to the Sembitol. Thrance only shrugged and said, "Every man is at war against all other men here. It is the worst of places. See if I'm not right, boy." Certainly there was no beauty in this Kingdom. It was a parched and crumpled land, somewhat like that grim plateau we had crossed so long ago, but even more brutal to the eye. We went past a place where small conical mountains belched fire and smoke and foul stinking gases, and had to cross a dark plain that was like a sea of ashes which crunched and clinked with every step we took. Dry lakes and withered streams that were no more than streams of gravel lay everywhere. Every gust of wind... lifted clouds of fine dust.MoreLess
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