THE TWO OUTLAWS

THE SUN DOOR

I am finally integrating myself into this city, normally called ''Resort'', and actually the population lives in its comfort and in the beauty of its streets, squares and multicolored houses, in the afternoon I often stop in the tea room, to enjoy my usually Black wine, made with the best beans of Thentis, a habit I have taken since years ago I was living in Thentis as a Magistrate, I was happy, I had my class for Scribe, and a pupil of mine lady Brjiana who became my companion for a few years, then for a coup by the provisional Regent, I, who was destined to become Head of Caste, had all the requisites, she with some of her trusted ones, including slaves in disguise change the outcome of the vote. I and Brjiana left the city to reach nearby Sais, where we lived for some time, before reaching my Oasis of the seven palms on the island south of the sea of ​​Thassa..

Finished drinking my Blackwine, I got up and headed towards the port, going down the great stairways to reach the sun gate, to go out into the port square before arriving at the quays, where ships usually arrive with their wares, sometimes I stopped to look at those busy people who work for the well-being of the city.

THE TEA ROOM

That day the sun was particularly hot for autumn, and the sky was blue, with some clouds veiling the sky, now summer is just a memory, winter is already upon us, some merchants told me that in the North there 'snow is already covering everything, I remember it well, I lived a long time in the North and I know that the snow always arrives on time at the end of autumn.

As I approached the big door, I noticed two men furtively looking around looking for I don't know what, I got curious and decided to stop them, as a Magistrate I have a duty to protect our city.    I ordered the two guards to stop them, and I got even closer until I was a few steps away and I could clearly see that they were neither merchants nor common visitors, they had neither bags nor weapons and this reassured me, but you could see the signs of a past certainly not happy on the scarred faces of those two individuals.

When I was close enough to be able to talk to them I asked them who they were and where they came from, one said he came from the North and the other from a nearby city without giving me his name or anything else, they were certainly not quiet men, then looking at them well in the light, I noticed on one of the two the tattoo worn by the adventurers of Port Kar, I lived there, sometimes as punishment for some petty theft or other they marked themselves with tattoos, while the other continued to be evasive by naming improbable places on the planet, not I had no proof that they had come to do any wrongdoing, so I asked them what they wanted to do, stay or visit and leave. They told me they just wanted to go to the tavern to have a drink and rest in some room, to leave the next day with a ship to the archipelago of Cos, a very long journey I thought, but better that way I would have been calm without those two around .

KAJIRA NUR

I looked around and noticed the little slave Nur with a basket as she returned from the market not far away, I asked her to accompany the two guests to the tavern, but at the same time I told a guard to escort them and keep her eyes open, never trust those arriving from Port Kar,

I followed them with my eyes until they entered the tavern and little Nur went quietly away, and I continued my walk towards the port.

The next morning I reported to the steward sir Yen, and to the head of the scribe caste sir Argos of the incident, and they sent guards to check at the port whether indeed the two foreigners were leaving the city, and so it was.

In the new cities, the first to arrive are the drifters, the adventurers and the players, and with them comes trouble and the guards must constantly keep tabs on who comes and who goes.

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