Paris

Paris was a huge city of bone-white walls, turrets, and tumbling roofs, dominated by the Louvre fortress and cathedral spires. It was now ravaged by plague, with gates shut, bodies in tumbrils, and the Hôtel Dieu overwhelmed. Jehan de Rouen warned of stone creatures that knocked at night to bludgeon and bite people to death.

Paris was a vast, walled city of bone-white fortifications, turrets, and tumbling roofs. It was gripped by plague, with shuttered streets, bodies in tumbrils, and the Hôtel Dieu overwhelmed. At night, stone creatures roamed, knocking and killing.

Paris was a huge walled city with bone-white fortifications, the Louvre fortress, cathedral spires, and tumbling roofs. By the time Thomas and his companions fled, it was a dying city suffering from plague, its streets still and shuttered, with bodies in tumbrils and a great fire burning one of its blocks.