THINGS DON'T ALWAYS GO WELL
REPORTS OF RECENT EVENTS

 

I was sitting quietly in my office when from the street the voice of the caste chief Sir Argos called me, I rushed out thinking there was some alarm or invasion, and after greeting him he told me about a big problem that had happened just before because of a woman.
 

SIR ARGOS hOc OF SCRIBE

 I told him to calm down because he was particularly agitated, after a few minutes I began to explain, his brother Sir Isle Chief Magistrate, had had a quarrel with the head of the builders Sir Relic. I promised myself to question the witnesses and the two Sirs involved and Lady Schera who apparently is the cause of everything.
  Early the next morning I showed up at Sir Isle's office, and he visibly angry and I think also worried, told me that it was nonsense, but that it degenerated when Relic hit him, because he had called Schera by a different name, and that he had won the challenge between them to ingratiate himself with the woman.
 

SIR JAKIS

 It was not a big problem I realized that between two friends sometimes these things happen, and for a woman two men of high caste could not end up in court, so I proposed to talk to Sir Minus the administrator who also worried and even a little angry told me to seek peace between them,  now I was waiting for Sir Relic to interrogate him and convince him to make peace with his friend Isle, I had gone to his office but there was no urgent work to do, so I went to the tea room for my usual black wine, and on the way a woman in merchant's clothes looked around lost,  the closer I got, the more I noticed a resemblance to a woman who lived in Port Victoria, a well-known and important merchant and also wealthy.
  

 When I was near I greeted Lady Tenka, and asked him if I could help her, he told me that Lady Zoey was waiting for a friend and merchant in Venna said that I had business to attend to together, and that at her shop they had said that she was on her way back and would soon arrive.
   I offered to let her visit the city and the great lake, she accepted and took her around the upper and lower city, then I took her to the lake, she was amazed by the beauty of the landscape and the air that was breathed, then she asked me to visit the Planetarium, I took her to the street but at some point I could not find the entrance,  I walked around with her in the area but I couldn't remember the stairs.
    

 Fortunately the commander Sir Jakis arrived and offered to escort her to the planetarium, I of course after the fool I preferred to go back to my usual chair at the tea room, after a little time they returned, she visibly happy told me the planetarium with its planets and stars was beautiful, then Sir Hugo arrived and I took her to visit the shops in the market street and I returned to my work.
  

LADY HANA

   In the afternoon as I entered the café, you hear a woman screaming, it was Lady Schera who shouted at Tenka for soiling her face with a piece of cake and the dress with her cup of tea, Schera screamed for that she had a dinner, she would arrive late for the time it would take her to change, also she claimed that he had done it on purpose to offend her,  but since it was a quarrel between women I preferred to move to the café in front where sitting at a table a figure with strange clothes and a large hat that covered almost all of it, I had already seen the drawings made by Scribe travelers on planet Earth, they were called Japanese, I introduced myself asking him who it was for my curiosity,  She told me her name was Hana, and she was a healer, who came to town looking for a job and a home.
  

SIR MINUS ADMIN OF VENNA

 We talked about the city and the opportunities it offered, then the manager of the hotel Sir Wiey arrived and invited Lady Hana to choose a room for the night, while I retired to my house not far away.
  

LADY TENKA

The next day as I was heading towards the grand staircase, I saw a group of people standing at a corner and approaching me I recognized Sir Minus, Sir Relic, Lady Schera and Lady Tenka, I approached trying to understand what was happening, I understood that it was for the quarrel between the two ladies, Lady Schera had told Relic, and he demanded according to the law that she be arrested as a non-citizen,  could risk being slavery, at this point Sir Minus asked if anyone knew the woman and I said I know her well she was a merchant of port Victoria, I did not know that in the meantime after the fall of Victoria she had moved to Nykus, where I had been for four hands before arriving in Venna,  a city rebuilt on the ruins of earthquake.
  

SIR RELIC

 As I was saying this, two citizens of Nykus suddenly appeared as ghosts, whom I regarded as friends, namely Sir Ulir, the keeper of Victoria who has now become Chief of Merchants, and Sir Amir, former chief caste in Victoria and now a citizen of Nykus.
   Everyone thought that they had come for a peaceful alliance instead they were there to bring back Tenka who according to them was bound to their city, and in the meantime Sir Argos also arrived, certainly annoyed by the cries, he like me was a friend of Sir Amir, and understood the problem as a great lawman. He asked them if they knew the woman, who in the meantime Sir Minus had said that he would not arrest the woman for an insignificant fact, this brought Sir Relic to force Lady Schera to follow him into her house, she reluctantly followed him because he wanted revenge, perhaps jealousy of women, however better they had saved me so much work.
 

LADY HANA PYSICHIAN

  Meanwhile as they were leaving, Sir Amir took Tenka by the arm dragging her towards the ladder but Sir Argos opposed it by asking the woman if she wanted to follow them and she replied that she needed two days for her business in Venna then she would return to them, but they were very angry certainly had faced a long journey for nothing, and they were angry with everyone by offending the city, then Sir Argos invited them to the Inn for a drink of Paga, and they calmed down a little. But they went down the great stairs and disappeared as they had arrived, perhaps they had Tarls outside the walls.
   I now expect to speak to Sir Argos and Sir Minus to decide what to d

THE HISTORY OF SIERRAROSE

 

NEW VENNA CITY

 Today I want to tell you the story of a sweet girl I met.

Little Sierra is sitting on the waterfront, she looks into the distance, looking at the horizon waiting for a ship that may never arrive.

She was born on the line that divides the north from the south, grew up in an anonymous city populated by people who often stay some time but then leave, or by merchants and pirates who stop for some repair or for some trade.

SIERRAROSE

Now grown up, the girl no longer plays with her friends but is busy at home helping her mother and brothers, the father now far away for a long time no longer gave news  of himself and  they lived from the work of the doctor mother, gave lessons to the daughters who helped her in dressings and healing potions

   One day a young pirate arrived at the port, tall blond with blue eyes, I enter the medicine shop for a wound to a leg, and Eli falls in love at first sight, he too is dazzled by the beauty of the young woman, and after a period of courtship he took her as a companion, he settled in the city opened a large warehouse of products that traded between the north and the south.

    Everything was going well they were happy and she was expecting a child from him, but sometimes happiness does not last forever and one day the small town was attacked by marauders who devastated and killed anyone who opposed or defended the walls, The young pirate took his pregnant wife to the nearby woods and hid her under leaves, And he ran along with others to defend and drive out those marauders.

     While some fought others captured women and children and took them on their ship, until they ran away taking those women and children, so it was that the young pirate along with other citizens set up a ship to chase and free those people.

    Sierra passed the danger I return to the house waiting in vain for his companion who gave no more news of him, until one day some passing pirates gave him a parchment where he wrote that he would soon return, but time passed and the girl who in the meantime had given birth to a girl, every day went to the port to get news of her partner.

SIERRAROSE

    One day a ship arrived from the south, and the commander told the young woman that his companion's ship had sunk in the storm and that there was no more news of the pirate.

    She never resigned herself and one day the child had grown up, and had aside a little money earned with her work decided to undertake research and at the same time wanted to study to become a Scribe since not having two children could not practice the profession of healer.

She knew of a new large city very populated and decided to visit it hoping there would be a class, otherwise she would move to nearby Thentis, or to the big city of Olni, or Sais could attend courses there.

   One day she was sitting in the tea room of the square overlooking the docks of the port she saw Lui, a tall young man with shoulder-length blond hair, dressed in blue who was slowly advancing looking around followed by some guards.

   She could not believe her eyes was the image of her now lost companion, the closer she got and the more she noticed the resemblance to the point that getting up she ran towards him, the guards stopped her asking what she wanted from their Emir, it was then that I noticed the difference in features this was much younger and taller,

The Emir invited her to sit with him to drink a black wine asking him who he was and what she wanted from him, she told him her story, and the hope that one day she would see and embrace her love again, the Emir introduced himself as Darian in Nairad,  Andmiro of the Oasi of the seven palms,  in the south of the Thassa Sea,  he is also looking for his missing partner with his newborn baby Lady Harmony this is the name of the woman.

 

DARIAN EL NAIRAD

But the friendship did not last long, she attended the course at Scribe's and soon she would graduate, and so as soon as she graduated she was called to the city of kargash, the Ubar Sir Youroki took her as Chief Scribe and with his companion Lady Sabayna decided to adopt her together with herdaughter who one day would embrace again.  to  be able to woo her and take her as a companion,  she very enthusiastic, but Sir Youroki who had also lived in the south, precisely in the city of Landa together withthe emir refused him courtship without a plausible reason.

They lost sight of each other for a few years, in the meantime the Emir abdicated in favor of his brother Orlando, had resumed the name he had when he ran away from the oasis, for the city of Korat, and after the fall of Victoria after a brief visit to the north ofhis mother Lady BB Arliss the Magistrate Ulysses, stopped first in a city called Northerm Lig  th and  then moves  to the newly rebuilt city of Venna, called by Lady Jinni who alreadylived and worked as Scribe.

One day while the Magistrate visited the great lake of Venna, he was called to the port, a friend of his had arrived they told him, he ran to the port and found himself in front of the little Sierrarose, the emotion was great and after talking about the old days and asking her I take her to visit the lake.

He said that the city of Kargash had  fallen and that his family had moved to the oasis  of Cartassa, there, the  magistrate knew everyone for who had worked there, she told him that she had known of a tall  and blond  man who lived in Venna and had believed it was her partner. but the disappointment ends soon, She was happy to see him again and asked him to stay a few days in the city with him, then she would return to her family.

But I always see her sitting by the sea, looking into the distance in search of something that will never come,

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                 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