"Does it matter how much was stolen!?", he shouted, anger suddenly rising up in him.
"It's the whole principle of the bleeding thing! Aren't you even going to chase after him!?"
"Sorry sir. Didn't even see the crime in question, sir"
The merchant turned back to the first guard, who had saluted him. He had got his breath back, and he straightened up. He somehow felt he was being made fun of, and that these guards were slightly strange.
He looked them up and down. They were wearing the standard fare, full head helmets, shoulder pads and breastplate with a cloth shirt and trousers. His gaze traveled downwards, and he spotted a strange sight. There was a tail sticking out behind the first guard.
The guards had been following his gaze, but suddenly the looked straight at each other.
"Wait, a second", he started, "You tw-".
In a split second, the first guard pushed him over, then he grabbed hold of the other and they both turned and ran.
"Hey! Where are you going!?", yelled the merchant from the ground
He got to his feet and was about to start running again, but something made him turn around and look back at his stall. He had been stacking boxes, waiting to unpack them when they had all been unloaded off the cart.
There was nothing left.
He stood staring. And then, people around the docks and even further, heard shouting that would have caused their mothers to cover their ears in shock.
Sprawling in every direction, with it's streets filled with buildings of every height and shape, the city spread itself out over every space available. If a bird had flown over, and had a sense of city wide architecture about it, it would have noted the division, caused by the river, separated the two halves of the city, each with it's own unique buildings and nucleation sites. This would have had to have been a particularly astute bird, though it probably wouldn't have been able to see much anyway, due to the clouds of smog that hung like clouds over most areas.
Around the centres of each half were the 'important' buildings, the banks, the churches and other official government type buildings containing sort of important people doing sort of important jobs. The twin clock towers with a bridge in the sky
"It's the whole principle of the bleeding thing! Aren't you even going to chase after him!?"
"Sorry sir. Didn't even see the crime in question, sir"
The merchant turned back to the first guard, who had saluted him. He had got his breath back, and he straightened up. He somehow felt he was being made fun of, and that these guards were slightly strange.
He looked them up and down. They were wearing the standard fare, full head helmets, shoulder pads and breastplate with a cloth shirt and trousers. His gaze traveled downwards, and he spotted a strange sight. There was a tail sticking out behind the first guard.
The guards had been following his gaze, but suddenly the looked straight at each other.
"Wait, a second", he started, "You tw-".
In a split second, the first guard pushed him over, then he grabbed hold of the other and they both turned and ran.
"Hey! Where are you going!?", yelled the merchant from the ground
He got to his feet and was about to start running again, but something made him turn around and look back at his stall. He had been stacking boxes, waiting to unpack them when they had all been unloaded off the cart.
There was nothing left.
He stood staring. And then, people around the docks and even further, heard shouting that would have caused their mothers to cover their ears in shock.
Sprawling in every direction, with it's streets filled with buildings of every height and shape, the city spread itself out over every space available. If a bird had flown over, and had a sense of city wide architecture about it, it would have noted the division, caused by the river, separated the two halves of the city, each with it's own unique buildings and nucleation sites. This would have had to have been a particularly astute bird, though it probably wouldn't have been able to see much anyway, due to the clouds of smog that hung like clouds over most areas.
Around the centres of each half were the 'important' buildings, the banks, the churches and other official government type buildings containing sort of important people doing sort of important jobs. The twin clock towers with a bridge in the sky
