The mage still tried to walk in the shadows, which made him feel a bit safer inside. In his view, the shape of the Bronze Fortress was fully revealed: circular walls combined with streets radiating outward like spokes, making the place resemble a gigantic spider web. Lynch tried not to imagine where the predator of this web—the spider—might be lurking, because such thoughts made him shudder, feeling like a moth trapped in this place, desperately flapping its wings to escape. Lynch hated spiders, and this became a personal taboo when he left Ratris City.
