Actual working post, I hope -- Round Three Lines

[a_d_medievalist]

Here they are!

1. Bardas glared at the interloper.
   
2. Perimadeia: the famed Triple City and the mercantile capital of the known world
   
3. The dreams were always about screaming and smoke.
   
4. Above the city, he stretched out in his quarters and surveyed the landscape put into his charge; his sword hung on the wall like an omen.
   
5. "Do the walls yet hold?"
   
6. Deep in the darker district of the Shining Triple City a young girl was running for her life.
   
7. It was just a run-of-the-mill shipping dispute, nothing more; a disagreement over the interpretation of a poorly worded contract, some minor discrepancies in various bills of lading, coinciding with a notorious grey area in the mercantile statutes.

Poll

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