The houses are built of clay with (generally) flat roofs impervious to fire.
He could see the clear starry sky between the dark roofs of two penthouses.
Moonlight spilled over triangular roofs into grassy front yards.
The roofs are laid out as gardens and preserved for the exclusive use of the women.
But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.
