"I live on Rue Coupole, in what's known as Night's Doorstep," he said, voice low and steady. "We are just at the base of the hill upon which the great Houses of the Night Court dwell. Even though we are poorest and the roughest neighborhood in all of the City of Elua, we have such music and dancing as you've never seen. We have taverns where artists dine and Habiru scholars study and students argue back and forth in a half-dozen languages."