TH BANK THEFT

A day of the Magistrate

 

 

While I was busy studying the case of a Free companion of a Captain of the guards, she denounced her husband for neglecting her, she said that she spent every night in the Inn with the slaves of the city, she asked me to intervene, she could also reject him, the law of the planet, allows the companion every year to confirm her union,  but the husband being Captain of the guards and as a result of an old law of the Planet could make her a slave, the law says: - A woman and free as long as the man allows him to be-

A seemingly easy but somewhat complicated case, no Magistrate would have ever put himself against a Captain at risk of an accident in the night, which could cost him his life.

While I was absorbed in those thoughts, I heard an excited voice coming from the street, I looked out on the balcony and asked the guard

-What is this hustle and bustle, you can no longer work in peace in this city-

The guard who was usually stationed atmydoor, after consulting with a passer-by said:

-Sir Ulises robbed the central bank, taking away all the gold plates-

This was my job, I rushed to the bank which was several blocks from my office, arrived in front of the door I saw the Commander of the Guards and the Chief of the Scribes together with Lady Lucy the Ambassador, already on the spot investigating, I asked for news and Sir Robert told me

-Last night someone broke into the bank stealing only the gold plates, leaving the silver and iron ones in their place, just now that the director of the bank is hospitalized in the infirmary for an illness he had the other day-

A rather strange case, while I was looking around some signs of burglary, I remembered that the day before I had met a free of low Caste, with a scar on his right cheek, who answered my questions whose questions he was.

-My name is Bry, I came to town looking for work and Ubar assigned me the job as a Black smith-

-we already have a black smith in town, tell me who you are otherwise I'll get you arrested-

He visibly worried told me:

-In truth I am a magician arrived in the city withmy bandwagon, we will perform in the central square as  soon as possible-

That said, while I was looking for evidence of what he said disappeared from my sight, maybe he was really a magician, but at that moment I didn't think about it, I went into the inn to have a drink. I asked the Captain if they had notified the bank manager and he replied.

-I don't think anyone wants to do it, he has a temper and could get angry-

So I decided to go in person to the infirmary, arrived at the door I heard laughter and shouting coming from inside, I lent my ear and I heard clearly the banker say to his slave:

-We will no longer have problems small, with the gold coins that I stole from the bank, we will go to a big city and make the good life-

In silence I retraced my steps when I arrived at the bank and called the captain and told him:

-Take two guards we will go to search the house of the director-

The captain obeyed and after forcing the door and making a meticulous search we found in the barrel of Paga wrapped in skins the gold plates, I sent the captain to arrest the banker I would have tried him the next day and the slave I entrusted to theSlave to  put her in the Kennel at the disposal of  the passing Pirati.

The trial did not last long he confessed the misdeed, and said:

-I went back to my house at night, going through the back door evading the guards, from there I went into the bank, then you know the rest-

I condemned him to forced labor in the iron mines at the foot of the Sardar mountains. The head of the scribes Sir Robert was radiant, having recovered his gold plates, even the lady lucy very happy, I returned to my work for the complex case of the captain and his companion, whom I would have summoned as soon as possible to see for myself if it was her husband who neglected her or it she who could not satisfy him, a question that I liked too much, I would have touched with my hand .................. Go on

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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LADY JINNY

Sometimes the past comes back and we find ourselves colliding with memories.
   While I was looking for my brother Emir Darian. the tracks led me to the town of Venna. here I met lady jinny, where in the afternoon we often meet in the tea room to have a chat.  

   After many moons spent defending the territory, I was still alone, my sisters had already left for the south, and I tired of still living in the Counterland, I decided it was time to find a place where I could study and become someone, as I had promised to my mother, so I reached the city of Olni, where many studied in the classes to become Scribe, after my diplomas as a Scribe I joined my sisters in Cartassa in the Thahari desert, and it was there that I met Darian, he was the Magistrate, we were happy until the city for a conspiracy of the Combo tribe fell destroyed, we all escaped, while I was directed to the city of Ar, the caravan with which I was traveling stopped in the great city of Venna. the city was very beautiful and large with palaces with so many columns i fell in love and i stayed there, soon i hope to take the oath to make it my Home Stone, i have a job, a house and i hope one day to reunite with my sisters and have a mate

 

 Jinny says that with Darian they worked together as Scribe she and Magistrate Darian in Cartassa the old fallen city and from its ruins was born The oasis of Cartassa, that he made him a ruthless court, he was willing to do anything for her, but the fall of Cartassa I take them far away to different places. While Darian joined his mother Lady BB arliss in the city of Finnur, she instead stopped in a large city beyond the Vosk, called Olni, where in the school of the Scribes I learned everything there was to know about the laws, attending with the courses were very profitable, she told me that while she was leaving for the city of Cartassa, to meet her sisters, where they had offered him a job as a scribe, Darian arrived with his ship, but just long enough to say goodbye and once again the fate divided them.
    This woman intrigued me a lot and I asked him to tell me about her life, to learn more about the woman that Darian had loved without being reciprocated, it was important to me, she began her story.
 

   -I was born in the north while the snow covered everything and the bitter cold forced people into their huts, I was the last of four children, including three sisters and a brother, she didn't remember much about her brother, he left when she was still a little girl, while the three girls were growing up, their mother taught them the art of war, she didn't remember her brother's name well, while of the two sisters, I only know one named Betty, whom I have met many times in different city ​​of the planet.
   She never met her father who left immediately after having conceived her, and disappeared without a trace, perhaps died in some combat, it was said that he was a great warrior, ours was a family from the -House of Ghosts-, and we lived according to their traditions .
  

CARTASSA

 When my mother left us we were left alone, by now we were quite old, we left in search of a new home and a new life, and finally we found a land that was right for us, it was the one we dreamed of, that land was called Avilion, and I I knew the art of combat. I asked to become a Ranger of the Lands, a sort of warrior of the Planet.
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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE EMIR

VENNA

Strange rumors reached the Oasis, some merchants arriving from the north asserted that the Emir Darian had disappeared, together with his ship, which had departed from Northern Ligth Bay to reach the oasis, but never arrived.
   My worried brother Orlando sent me a message, he wrote me that the Emir was reported missing at sea, I, the youngest brother of the family, lived on my little island, where I spent my time studying and writing about my travels as did my brother Darian.
  I arrived at the Oasis of the Seven Palms, you could see that there was something wrong in the air, the population watched the sea waiting for the Emir's ship to appear, and there were no more parties for foreigners.

ULISSE

   Orlando I explain his concern and beg me being the youngest of the family to set off to find our brother Darian.
   Time to organize a ship, load the provisions, and the water we set sail, the destination would be Port Northerm, the city where they had last seen him, and after some weeks of navigation, we arrived at the city, unknown to me, entered the large square I could not meet anyone, certainly all in their homes, I asked the guard in front of the gate and he explained to me that the land is divided into three different cities, or rather two cities and a village in the forest of the slavers, a tribe dedicated mostly to raids on neighboring cities, while the other was Kasra, which more than a city looked like a fairy-tale village, made up of strange houses with steepled roofs, I told the guard to report me to the palace of the Scribes
 

LADY JINNY

 Finally a Scribe named Lady Joy arrives, after having welcomed me with kindness, I talk to me about my brother, who had lived there for a few months, but who had left following a woman, who did not remember the name, but who perhaps a friend of Darian's told me she would give more information, that friend was called Jinny, I had heard of her, when we all lived in the city of Cartassa, I asked where I could find her, she told me that after the fall of Victoria many citizens left for por Nykus, so I could ask there.
   We resumed our journey to port Nykus, I knew that island had been rebuilt on the ruins of the great city of Leisure in the Cos archipelago.
    I must say that the new city had been built well, when I arrived at the port I went directly to the tavern there surely someone had seen it, and in fact a certain Sir Ulir told me that he had spent some time with them, wandering around the port and in the city, alone and out of work, and that he had discovered disguised as a musician, his slave Fahima together with her old master Timmer in the city during the festival of the Kajires, but that they had disappeared again, and he decided to go after them, I don't know for what place, at this point I asked him about Jinny, and he told me that a pirate from the great city of Venna had met a beautiful woman named Jinny,
   We left again for Venna, I didn't know that city, even if I had heard of it, still being rebuilt on the ruins of the old one.
   In the port of Venna, many ships at the docks, many people bustling about the port, I asked for information and they told me to enter through the gate and climb the grand staircase that ended in a beautiful square with beautiful colors and all around buildings with many columns,
while I was going up, I asked a slave who was also going up, if she knew Lady Jinny, she told me that surely I would find her at the palace of the scribes, offering to take me, and it was she herself who called the Scribe and got her out of her office, after introduced myself, I asked him about Darian, and that he hadn't returned to the Oasis, she told me, he was always after women who betrayed him punctually, making him suffer, I explain that in Victoria he had a slave girl who later disappeared, during the fall of the citta, which had a woman who had taken him to a Panther willage to have him killed, but he had managed to escape, then remembering a detail he told me that a certain lady Dara had invited him to her castle not far from Venna , she didn't know anything else, she was also very worried because she loved Darian very much they had shared work in many cities.
  

ULISSE of KORAT

  But while I was organizing the journey to Lady Dara's castle, some pirates at the port told me that the castle had fallen but that no one knew about Darian, so I decided together with Lady Jinny that I would stay in the city waiting for some news, I ordered the commander of the ship to return to the oasis and report to Orlando, the news that I had learned and that when I discovered something I would inform him.
    Lady Jinny and I spoke to the Scribe head caste for a job, and a house fit for a Prince as I am, and so it was, I now live in Venna, hoping Darian will show up, and often go in the afternoon with Mrs Jinny at the tea room and there we drink a nice blackwine, talking about him and his adventures
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RETURN TO THE OASIS

What can I say, here I am finally back to my oasis, and I don't think I will leave again, too many disappointments, too many missed expectations, and nothing of my dreams has come true.
   During my travels I have visited many cities, it would be impossible to list them all, villages in the north where the snow is already starting to whiten the mountains, the Vikings return from their businesses in the south. And happy women are there on the docks of their ports.
 

  The last few times have been very hard and they have tried me more than necessary, since I left with Brjiana, the woman who took everything from me and left me for her adventure in the Opal mines, not renewing our company contract since then. I had other adventures, starting from the oasis of Cartassa, where Safina had preferred to trust Brjiana, so I was forced to leave for the north.
Crossed the great Vosk river, I went up the Olni river to the city, if you remember them I had known Kara-Serin la Tuchuk becoming my promise. But she preferred her farm in the hills to our meetings of acquaintance.
   When I arrived at the city of Olni at the port, a guard I knew told me that there would soon be a trial against Kara-serin, the slaver had denounced her saying that he was being harassed by her.
 I witnessed the trial ended with the acquittal of Kara, a few days later I left again going up the Olni river, up to the derivation of the Thentis river, stopping in the city of Sais, I had already been for some time and still some friends including Sir Nicholas.
   After a few days I resumed the port I was told of a new big city of Victoria, look for Scribe they told me so I decided to stop to watch the show, I was amazed by the beauty of the journey, of the many citizens who crowded the square of the port, and the surrounding streets, I decided to ask for a job and stop for some time.
 

  It was not a good idea, so from that moment my troubles began, buying the slave Fahima from the player Timmer, whom he himself had kidnapped, in the fall of the city, I remember that we were camped in the forest and she disappeared, kidnapped by a slaveholder for Timmer's account, despite having taken my two Cooper Tarsk, in the meantime almost all the population, left to populate the city of Nykus born from the ruins of Leisure is rebuilt for the umpteenth time.
   It was not difficult for me to be welcomed and have a job, for which they were the same as Victoria and Sir Amir I reconfirmed the job as Scribe.
  It was there that after Mesists organized some Kajires dance competitions, I do not like those events but one evening some decided slaves, assist in my amazement to see that in the meantime my slave Fahima had become a musician and was playing music for the dances , I looked around and caught the eye of Timmer the player who also attended a game of Zar.I asked him to come up and he said: I will never give you my Fahima back. And so not even the time to call the guards to arrest him, he and his slave disappeared again.
 

CITTA' DI VENNA

   I was very upset I could not take revenge on that man, and I realized that he too was well known, so I decided to leave again and go north to meet my mother Lady BB arliss. And after some time we stopped at the town of Northerm ligth bay, bordering the town of Kasra and the forest of the slavers, a tribe of women, often went down to town, and I met Lady Joy, I think she was in charge of the caste, or something. such.
    It took me enough time to meet a responsible for the Scribes so that I could entrust him with the application for admission, and I waited for the answer for days and days, luckily they gave me a house down the road immediately to the left of the tavern at least I could stay warm too. if the house was nothing more than a small, sparse room, I would have put the Kailla in my oasis.
     The days passed but no one called me, on the contrary I met in the afternoon in the tavern l'ubar libere with his slave and some including Lady Anna who often danced in the center, sir Aaron, sir Ben the magistrate of kasra, with his strange white dress and his staff,
that then I had a quarrel with Lady Nadja you know and that was the reason that convinced me to return to my Oasis of the seven palms now the snow in the north covered the mountains and I prefer the desert sun.
I had arrived a few days ago and I did the office things. And I started my usual life again.
   One day a pirate ship arrived from the North, and the captain told me about a great city that I did not yet know, curiosity prompted me to prepare a trip to visit it and one morning we left.
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ESCAPE FROM KASRA

ARRIVO AD HAMMERSGAARD

I never wanted to write anything like this, but the events that happened after the wedding convinced me to leave the city and the island.
   Despite all my good intentions, and after offering to work for them, putting all my experience into practice, I realized that many citizens evaded my company, except Sir Aroon and lately Lady Joy the Magistrate, who despite the suspicion Initial at the end we were able to explain ourselves by telling us about our adventures in the same cities, the Planet even if big in the end is small and sooner or later we meet again.
   I was saying that I still didn't understand that they use a rather bizarre method of experiencing the island. dividing the various parts, in Northerm, in Kastra and in a village of Senzanome. naturally the land being Raid had its own way of operating, and all or almost all were women except a few men who I did not have time to know, if not only by sight or in the great tea room, which they insist on calling Taverna, without even a slave to serve at the table, but with Lady Anna who often danced in the center of the large table surrounded by chairs.
   Lady Alice had assigned me a house at the end of the road near the tavern, one day as I was going out, to my left not far away embedded in the boundary wall, I saw a door with the writing Kasra, this I became curious and decided to take a walk outside the walls, even if I still did not know the city well, there was the risk of being attacked by some Raider, but without fear I passed that door, I found myself in a different reality, with houses with an unusual shape that I did not know on the planet, they seemed so many small castles with spire roofs, with bright colors. I walk among those strange houses until I came out in a small square where sitting in a circle around the big fire were sitting some women and a man who I recognized in Sir Balrogh, I think it was the Ubar of Northerm, but I'm not sure, but I had already seen sitting in the tavern with his slave Masha, not far away on a bench sat Sir Aaron, the gentleman thief with whom I had already spoken before, I sat with him trying not to disturb but greeting everyone in a whisper, I was looking at me around and trying to understand how those houses were made, (I remember vaguely resembling the castles of fairy tales).
    While I was there quiet without even listening to what they said.
a woman with a menacing appearance came towards me (I would have known after she was Kasra's tatrix), and in a brusque way and without the slightest kindness and respect towards a high caste man like she told me. Here we are in the city of Kasra, and the citizens of Northem are not welcome, I was also stunned because Aaron was also a guest, to my question of why, she said in a threatening tone: I am the Tatrix and you are not welcome .
   

   Well I wrote these few lines while I was preparing my luggage to leave, I will go even further north to Hammersgaard, perhaps I will stop at my good friend Nani the panther, who has become a tavernkeeper, even if soon the snow will submerge everything there too, while the people it will close in the great Hall to spend the winter eating and drinking, in the company of slaves and dancers and the warriors will tell their stories of conquests and travels.

 

  Such a thing has never happened to me, everywhere I go everyone welcomes me with respect and friendship this woman instead was treating me as a stranger, however I returned to my city and in the tavern I met Lady Joy the Magistrate, who asking for explanations told me that sometimes women behave like this with men in the cities where they raid, I would later know that Brjiana, my ex-partner with whom we shared the bed and the newspaper, had arrived in the city and of course where she arrives many become hostile to me. but I'm going straight on my way I don't know fear and it certainly won't be a woman to scare me.   Well I wrote these few lines while I was preparing my luggage to leave, I will go even further north to Hammersgaard, perhaps I will stop at my good friend Nani the panther, who has become a tavernkeeper, even if soon the snow will submerge everything there too, while the people it will close in the great Hall to spend the winter eating and drinking, in the company of slaves and dancers and the warriors will tell their stories of conquests and travels.

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WEDDING IN KASRA

A great event today in the city of port Kasra, as soon as I arrived in the great tea room, some euphoric citizens warned me of the next company ceremony, that is the marriage between Lady Gaia and Sir Ju-Hin, I was finally happy something that moved my life in Kasra,
my work as a Scribe is quite boring and after my walks along the beach all that remains is work and a short break in the afternoon in the large hall in the company of citizens, often those others who work or have a home away from the city.
  

 

 The ceremony would take place on the beach, they had set up the place with chairs and altar with many flowers and many candles that were to illuminate the twilight of the afternoon, and immediately nearby a large dance floor also carefully set up with many flowers and garlands , while the distant pano rama was certainly breathtaking.
 

 While I was sitting. I arrive Sir Aaron an old acquaintance of mine, now in this city as an honored citizen, but once he was a skilled thief, and if we want even a gentleman, we joked for a while about the possibility of losing my cooper (planet money). And in the meantime Sir Balrough arrives, whom I greeted with respect, meanwhile Lady Nadja was coming and going with her preparations and recommending to the guests to wear formal clothes, Lady Nadjia was, the one who would celebrate the wedding, I too am an officer but for years I have not celebrated any ceremonies in recent times on the planet.
  

  I arrive time to go down to the beach where some guests were already sitting patient and awkward in their party clothes, I stopped and sat at the back of the chairs, I don't like to show myself more than necessary, some ladies arrived with beautiful dresses and took their seats , I recognized Lady Anna and Lady Alice, then Lady Ziggy arrived with Lady Oksama. While Sir Ben should already sat in the front row with Sir Balrough, there were still many citizens and guests who still don't know their name but I hope to meet them in the future.

   Everything was ready, Lady Nadja I call the witnesses Lady Erin the Magistrate, and Lady Ziggy, and I start with the ceremony that I know well. But always exciting to see the tears of the bride and the slaves kneeling on the sidelines, and after all the ritual practices and exchanging documents and rings, they finally became Life Companions.
 

Aaron

In the end, after everyone's good wishes, we moved to the other part where there was a giant cake on a large table. that in the blink of an eye everyone ate it with gusto, I, as usual, sat on one side without talking to anyone, while the couple began the dances that lasted all night .......... WISHES TO THE BRIDES
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ARRIVAL IN NORTHEM LIGTH BAY
 

 Life in the city of Nykus slipped flat and without any noteworthy events.
All the activities took place mainly in the rooms of the inhabitants who I must say were numerous, as there were many slaves who wandered around the streets, I do not think they had specific goals.
Sir Ulir, who managed the tavern very well in the city of Victoria, here confined himself to fucking with male or female slaves, and the tavern was always empty and without service.
 

   I wandered around the streets looking for some reason to live there, but I didn't see any future and the head of the Scribes caste after many hands of time still didn't send me any admission documents to some role in the caste.
   Meanwhile the Slaver organize a Kajires dance competition,
they mounted a stage on the seafront overlooking the harbor, and for a few days there was movement of slaves and curious citizens who attended the rehearsals, and it was during my walk towards the tavern that I glimpsed Timmer the player from afar, the one who had taken and took away my slave Fahima that he himself had sold me, and then when he i want to arrested with the guards the city collapsed after a strong earthquake ending in rubble, we all took refuge in the forest in the old panther camp until the city was rebuilt, but no trace of him, certainly escaped with one of his ships.
I did not have time to call the guards to arrest him that he disappeared again, we looked for him everywhere but nothing.
 

   Another disappointment that accumulates to those of the lack of life in the city, so one evening I called the captain of my ship and told him to prepare that we would leave at high tide.
   We left a little before dawn and I told the captain to go down the river to the great Vosk river. I would  decide where to go. In the north my friend Nani she was waiting for me, the one who works as an innkeeper during the day and the Panther at night, but who in reality no one should know.
We would get down down the river to the archipelago of Kos, and then go up the Sea of ​​Thassa to the region of Thorwasland, but while we were sailing calmly with a light favorable wind, I remembered the city of Kasra, I was there a few months earlier with Brjiana for the our newspaper, the gazette of the moons, so we decided to stop to stock up on water and wine, it is known that in those islands the wine is the best.
 

  While we were already seeing the coasts in the distance a thunderstorm tossed us all day, but then finally we reached the coast, we landed at the great port of the city of Northerm ligth bay, I did not remember having visited it in the past, but then I knew that Kasra is neighboring.
   I was greeted at the port by a beautiful lady who with her escort and her slave, I carry around showing me the beauty of that big city and its busy port, so it was that I did not think twice and asked the lady if there  was an opportunity to live and work with them, after introducing myself as Ulysses Arliss the name my adoptive mother gave me when we escaped from the destroyed Oasis as children, in Korat in the shendi region. I did not say I was the Emir of the oasis of seven palm trees, in the future I would have said so.
  

  I assign myself a house on the upper floor, where on the right as you go up there is the large tea room where everyone meets in the afternoon after work, she told me and that soon I would also meet Sir Balrogh and Lady Irin.
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