章 23: Were Here
Adaceus rode the trail towards the gate, eventually reaching them and stared up its vast height. It was mad from a dark type of wood planks, all stapled within were silver colored steel bolts and iron plates that designed it throughout. The walls that held them in were titanic in size, and provided a large space of shade, shielding them from the suns afternoon glow.
They stopped just close enough to the gates, to where Hainan could talk to the guards without jumping off the carriage. All of them needed to be assessed in order for them to be granted entry, as Hainan explained, and it was a simple process, which Adaceus found nothing wrong with. The guards that were responsible for these assessment's were in these strange spaces that were built in the walls, small spaces where people in light armor were in, and separating them was a wide window, barred with rods of metal. There was a small gate in a far corner, with an emblem hung placed on top of it.
Hainan handed them something after the guards opened that gate, before being commented about the wound on his shoulder, which he shot down and assured that he was fine with a timid and crooked smile. The person inside observed what Hainan gave him, it was a small white tablet with a mix of gold and blue encrusted within, barely the size of his palm. Continuing to examine it, a look of surprise came to him, turning to the other people in the room in a look of surprise. After a couple of seconds, the man holding the tablet gave another an order, and with quick time, the gates to the city of Prahu slowly rose open in a loud rumble.
The man then handed back the tablet to Hainan, before saying.
"Welcome back, Lord Hainan."
Adaceus watched in anticipation as the gates disappeared before them, the rumbling noise coming to a halt with a loud clank, as it fully opened. Prahu, the vast city, was within his sights. He took a moment, taking in the details of it all.
There was a wide space at the entrance, like a semi circle mad of stone brick and designed with strange markings drawn in that resembled flowers and the sort, all made with colored an assortment of colored stones. Just a ways away, he could see the beginning of the street, a road, decorated beside were buildings.
"Adaceus?" Hainan asked.
"O-oh, I apologize," he said, flustered, and made the horses get in.
They went along the city streets, and Adaceus eyes shined at the surroundings. They passed though an assortment of buildings, some, selling a type of product, or some, serving a specific type of purpose, like a smithy, or a workshop.
All of them were occupied with the lively citizens of the city, all filled with the clamor of life like it was this place's blood, peaceful and calm as the cities people continued there early morning endeavors. There was a countless mix of them, all walking the streets in a blend of multiple forms.
There was something that caught his eye, though, a small, adolescent boy unlike any of the people here, helping unload boxes to a vendor. There patches of black fur spread across his entire body, his ears were catlike oversized in comparison to his head and flopped down, and his hands were covered with fur and long claws, and a tail waived at his waist.
He looked to the boy in intense focus of the peculiar form.
Another race? He thought.
The boy looked at him, glared with a tense look, and turned his head away with a scoff.
M-mm, Oops, and he averted his eyes.
A noise buzzed above him, like hum of a great beast, and following that was a large shadow began looming above him. It was a massive object, flying above them like it was weightless in the sky. He ducked in reflex, but he soon realized the other people didn't harbor the same concern he had, even seeing children point at it with laughter and large smiles, and the large flying thing quickly passed from them, revealing the light once more. Smaller ones followed in blinding speeds and startled him, rushing adrenaline to his heart as two of them, passed through them like a whiplash, trailing with them a gust of wind that almost sent him back. He looked to them, they looked almost insectoids, spewing fire out there rear ends.
Adaceus stared at the flying things in wonderment, awed by the surprises this city held.
Such... wonders.
Adaceus took this chance to observe intently everywhere, like he was hungered for them because of the sights he just beheld, until his eyes latched unto something walking by the roadside. It was a strange figure that was accompanying a woman, but it was unlike the people here. It was completely made out of metal, chrome and shiny, and resembled the shape of a man, except its movements were rigid, and stiff, and at any openings he could see parts, shifting and moving inside him like ants and coils, and all throughout his body a blue color coursed through him like they were blood.
"Make a turn here, Adaceus," Hainan said abruptly, making his focus on the strange figure break and fall away.
Adaceus turned to the front of the street, saying, "May I ask why?"
"That's the direction of the hospice, we need to go there."
"What is a hospice?" Adaceus asked, and Hainan looked at him dubiously with mix of surprise and incredulousness, with a look of 'You don't know what that is?' pasted on him, but Adaceus didn't notice the change of face. Grinning in understanding, Hainan explained, "It's a place of healing, Adaceus, one where we can recover from our sustained injuries."
Adaceus understood why, It made sense, and he obliged, clumsily turning that way, he still hadn't gotten the hang of turning horses to a specific direction. After a few minutes and another row of buildings traveled, they reached the gates of a large building.
It was enclose in a wall of red colored stones, and at the center was a large gate, with the top of it holding a symbol of a rod with two snakes overlapping it. A guard that was on standby opened the gates to let them inside, and they continued to the structure. It was a large building, reaching high, with the same symbol form the gate on it outer face, with the same red stone its primary material. It was some stories high, with vast rows and windows and sections that separated them.
This was the first kind he saw, apparently this was where people went to to get healed, and that made him remember the temples of old in his previous lifetime, were people would gather to pray for healing from them-were these a parody to those?
The guards got down there horses and went to the front carriage, where they bid their goodbyes to Hainan and Adaceus with a salute before going to the compartment, getting from inside a wounded and lumbering Zovrech, where they carefully escorted him in the building-quickly,.
Adaceus then asked Hainan.
"Do you need assistance as well Mr. Hainan?"
"O-oh, no, I'm fine, I think its best if I return home, I have a personal healer there so it'll be fine."
"Are you certain?"
"Yes I am, lets go home," and Adaceus mad the horses move.
"And where is that? Mr. Hainan, you're home"
"Close, actually, just a couple of minutes to reach it."
"Understood."
And they exited the gates, where they carried on with the road.
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