Shale

From the Middle Kingdom:
Buto:
Shale
on the other hand looked like a massive rubbish dump. At one point, Buto
thought, the town may have been pleasant to look upon. The older houses were
built from black timber, with red tiled roofs, not dissimilar to Pellaris
across the sea. But that had obviously been a long time ago. Many buildings had
fallen down and been shoddily repaired or just left to rot. There were acres of
shanty on the outskirts of the town, reaching right down into the sea were
stilted houses nestled up against the stone harbour wall. All around them was
desolation, there was no jungle or forest, it had long since been chopped down
for building material and fire wood.
Roztov:Roztov could see why people on the west coast of Ju might view Shale as an impressive city, it certainly was a lot bigger than any of the other settlements he had seen so far along the coast. But to his eyes it was a squat, squalid half-burnt shanty. It was as different to Millwood, the principle port of Styke, as it was possible to get. Where his homeland port's buildings were tall granite towers and thick walled fishermen's houses, the buildings of Shale were all pushed in on each other, made from roughly cut blocks of the local rock and blackened wooden beams. The beaches around the harbour walls were full of litter, and the rotting carcasses of slaughtered cattle, as if an army had camped there, and it gave the city an increasingly unpleasant odour as they got nearer.
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