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This is a city, if your standards for "city" don't require skyscrapers, electricity, or plumbing. She's landed on a side street; to her left, the crosswise thoroughfare has people hollering about their things for sale, people hurrying on foot and poking along on horseback to get here and there, storefronts and apartments in two and three story structures. The street she's standing on is quieter, houses and less customer-facing businesses, though it has its share of spillover traffic; she has not yet been noticed, by that fellow leading a goat or that woman with a basket of laundry or that family all holding hands so as not to lose each other. It's a cool day, a little misty.
Deskyl in Cefax
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Someone who might be a servant opens the door. She looks kind of alarmed.
bb!dz
"Excuse me, Ma'am. My mage friend and I were accidentally sent here; can you tell us how to get to the Temple-Guild?"
"I'm afraid I don't know the way, Tse...?"
The servant concludes that probably there is a foreign kind of mage that turns into metal and forms the belief that their attendant is them. "I see. I don't know the way there, I've never been."
"I suppose I could see if Tse Ecsari's attendant will tell me."
"I guess I could go find her." She taps her chin with a finger.
"I don't know what I'd do with that." Tap tap.
bb!dz
"We could find someone for you, or tell you why someone acts a certain way. She helped me learn Cefaxi, but that took all day."
"I'm not looking for anybody."
She sighs and nods politely and closes the door.
to better see the light
Well then.
Deskyl still doesn't want to head over to the Temple-Guild on this little information; they'll settle in here for now. It shouldn't be too hard to find work using her telekinesis, right?
...surprisingly difficult, actually. Everyone wants to know what Temple-Guild she's with and if one of the local ones has given her permission to work in Cefax.
to better see the light
Fine.
They go back to their campsite - they're going to have to figure out something for food, soon, but Deskyl can go another day before it's urgent at all - and set out for the Temple-Guild in the morning, Deskyl carrying DZ and speeding down the path at a good enough clip that it's still midmorning when they get there.
They are noticed en route but not approached at all.
The Temple-Guild is up on a hill, and surrounded by walls.
to better see the light
Deskyl is only a little tempted to vault the wall and kill them all; instead, she approaches the gate.
There are nonmages guarding the gate. "What's your business?" one asks her.
bb!dz
"Tse Deskyl and I were accidentally sent here by another mage; we were told we need permission from the Temple-Guild to work here."
The guard nods. "What color mage?"
This does not, apparently, compute. The guards look at each other.