In the City

[singindemonhq]

OK, given some of the things that seem to be happening with the dimensional portals, maybe I shouldn't say exactly where we were. (I checked the portal to Quaverel while I was in London. It's not functional but ... I somehow got more the feeling that it was warded than that it was dead.)

I took Erynne through a different portal to get to the Tower area. It takes a bit of nerve to use that one, and maybe I was trying to impress her - but I enjoyed Erynne's reaction to seeing London from that far above.

In this age it's a strange hotchpotch of styles. Wren churches, as exquisite as Faberge eggs, hide in the shadow of glass and concrete monstrosities. From our vantage point, we were looking down from far above the railway.

The buildings are a mixture of styles, now. Some of them had me worried about whether we'd come down in the wrong dimension after all!

There was a huge, stark matt-black tower with what looks like the silhouette of a giant, hooded figure, looking broodingly out over the busy city. (There was no way to smoke over to see what was really there. I was quite grateful when a local told me it was the Natwest Tower. The Mordor effect was kind of bugging me.)

I was looking at a thing like a vast, decorated glass cigar when Erynne nudged me too hard for comfort. She'd spotted Tower Bridge. The Tower of London lay behind it, looking almost like a child's toy fort from that height. We could see into the courtyard.

The Tower of London was to be our next stop, but I could see the roof of a bar I knew. I decided that we might as well stop off there, first.