Phil in SF quoted The Wall by Gautam Bhatia (Sumer, #1)
‘Imagine a horizon.’
‘I can’t.’
Mithila’s world is bound by a Wall enclosing the city …
And what about the woad that you grow in that so-called City garden, that you price so high that only you Elders and your farm-owning cronies can buy it- from yourselves?
— The Wall by Gautam Bhatia (Sumer, #1) (6%)
new vocabulary: woad
a yellow flowered European plant of the cabbage family. it was formerly widely grown in Britain as a source of blue dye, which was extracted from the leaves after they had been dried, powdered, and fermented.