Theme Thursday: Place

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*A theme will be posted each week on Thursday
*Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from your current book that features the theme
*Post it and don't forget to mention the author and title of the book
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This week's theme is Place Description (location/place/room/etc)

Here's mine from: "Silken Dragon" short story by Steven Edward McDonald in Dragons of Light by Orson Scott Card (ed) (p. 129):

So she sat, waiting for the night to end, watching the shivering stars, waiting for the sight of something elemental. Her room looked down on an open palace court, and out over beautifully-tended lawns and flower gardens, something she had never seen in Shalin.