Prologue
The Fire
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IT is almost impossible to tell in Ravensong where the city ends and the countryside begins – both are filled with trees. It is a vast, sprawling world of magic and disorder. Of course, the city is also filled with people, of miscellaneous shapes, sizes and colours. The sky over the city is always a dirty blue with a small sun shining in the centre of it.
Near the middle of Ravensong City, tucked in a small corner, is the Jumble Shop. It’s a big building that was once very tall but over the years started slouching, until eventually it slumped from exhaustion. Now it’s a large lump of masonry with a ti
