The Island of Wak-Wak The Fall of the City of Bells Paperback

For every bell a person, for every bell a purpose, for every bell a power.The city of Kloakweyst was never silent. Its magic was cast in bronze and iron: great bells tolling day and night, turning storms aside, holding back marauders, binding an empire together in one endless, protective peal. Then a stranger comes through the market gates wearing no bells at all, silence rippling in his wake, carrying a bell too perfect for this world, ushering the fall of Kloakweyst.A novella told in verse, swinging like a clapper between the ringing splendor of before the fall and the haunted quiet after, The Fall of the City of Bells is a story of empire and exile, complicity and grief, and of learning what music is worth making after the power of the old song has failed.