Roses For Avalon | Page 112 | Draft

Things just keep getting more tight!

Aphaelia uses water power. There's a grand aquaduct that diverts a river directly into the city, and simple mechanical power is cheap because of that. Perhaps I ought to show the reader some of the wheels that drive the elevator system just to elucidate roshim's explanation

A lot of the words and imagery used for the tower are tree-based; talking about roots and growth and such is my own nod to the idea of a tree of knowledge