Pays to be, in a city like this. Pays to be careful, when Kirkwall's near enough to the rest of this shithole excuse of a country to risk some familiar faces.
(The Marches are full of the scarred and mean; rather fewer ran around with a Volar on their good arm.)
But this is the problem with watching where you step: You lose track — and quickly — of the rest of it. Darktown is a maze, and one she hasn't seen in years. This cheap attempt at getting her bearings is quickly looking to cost a lot more than planned.
"Watch it —" He staggers, and she snarls, shoving out on instinct. Her pockets may as well be empty, but it doesn't pay to look any kind of easy mark. A better look at him, and her assessment shifts: If he's a pickpocket, he's stone fucking drunk in it. "— Shiiit,"
Melys hisses, because that's far-gone on far-gone. She's not getting any useful directions out of this one.
But there might be something in his pockets, still.
undercity crawl;
Pays to be, in a city like this. Pays to be careful, when Kirkwall's near enough to the rest of this shithole excuse of a country to risk some familiar faces.
(The Marches are full of the scarred and mean; rather fewer ran around with a Volar on their good arm.)
But this is the problem with watching where you step: You lose track — and quickly — of the rest of it. Darktown is a maze, and one she hasn't seen in years. This cheap attempt at getting her bearings is quickly looking to cost a lot more than planned.
"Watch it —" He staggers, and she snarls, shoving out on instinct. Her pockets may as well be empty, but it doesn't pay to look any kind of easy mark. A better look at him, and her assessment shifts: If he's a pickpocket, he's stone fucking drunk in it. "— Shiiit,"
Melys hisses, because that's far-gone on far-gone. She's not getting any useful directions out of this one.
But there might be something in his pockets, still.
"How're you even upright?"