THE TRUE STORY OF THE EMIR

PART 5 arrival in Port Kar The old merchant took a breath, looked at my face, then raised his gaze to the sky. I looked at the three high, bright moons and after taking another sip of his Ka La Na I continued. Emir Darian could not rest, he continued to question the citizens, no one had seen or heard anything, he looked at the house of his beloved Blue, climbing the path to reach her home, and his heart sank, he had lost a love that had just blossomed, he often asked me if as a Merchant I had known something, but no one could tell me anything about it. After some time when everything seemed to be back to normal in the city something happened that changed the history of Landa, one afternoon while everyone was at work someone saw a half-naked armed woman coming out of the perfumery, she looked like a Panther, then wandering between the buildings, and the tents, they warned the guards at the gate and sent a slave to the Magistrate's office to tell him what had happened, he ran down and met the Commander of the guards while he was inspecting the surroundings of that perfumery, when Darian rushed together with some guards into the perfumery, he had the Perfumer blocked and after a careful search they found a small door behind a shelf, the guards opened it and followed that dark corridor until they emerged behind some baskets in the large warehouse that had access from the port, the Commander organized a control expedition of the territory around the walls, until he found and chased some women who disappeared into the forest, he together with many men was determined to capture and eliminate those Panthers. Meanwhile, Magistrate Darian was at the gates with some slaves and some guards, suddenly they saw a Tarl coming from the sky with a warrior riding it, without getting off or stopping it flew away before the archers could pierce it, Darian did not pay attention to it but still warned Lady Zypero of what had happened, the next morning the sky darkened, while Darian was heading towards the office, a multitude of grim warriors were riding their Tarls coming down outside the gate, killing everyone they found on their way, they had taken advantage of the unguarded garrison to attack us destroying and burning everything, Darian took his slave with him remembering the secret passage inside the now empty perfumery he walked along that corridor emerging at the port far from the gates, he got on a small boat and escaped on the river towards the sea on the beach side, when he was in the high seas a ship of one of the Captains of Port Kar took him on board, Magistrate Darian told everything to the Captain who seemed very worried.. warriors torvie so far from their land that they had destroyed a great rich and flourishing city, he told Darian that he was returning to Port Kar and could take refuge in his city as long as he wanted, he was one of the Twelve Captains and was under his protection. They went up the Thassa to the gulf and then into the delta until they reached that city inhabited by criminals, thieves, murderers and outlaws, the Magistrate Darian was welcomed by the head of the Scribes, he spent his time in bed with the slaves in the tower, offering him a job as a Lawyer, Darian accepted immediately without knowing that in that city there were no laws and therefore there could be no Magistrates or Lawyers, but he wanted to rest, catch his breath, and decide on the future, he rented a gloomy house without windows at the end of the canal that crossed the city from one side to the other, he began to look around.