<span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #00BFFF"><div style="text-align: center;">David</div></span></span><br/><br/>David righted himself and tried to focus. It had been such a strange and frightening experience to age so rapidly and then de-age again. What he had done, whatever that was, it had consequences.<br/><br/>The guard looked David up and down. If he had noticed the strange occurrence, he didn’t reveal his reaction.<br/><br/>“So you two are part of the new latrine crew?”<br/><br/>David just nodded to avoid making a face, “Sure.”<br/><br/>“Very well - hey I said disband!” A group of shopkeepers and customers were still standing around and watching, but they quickly disbanded and carried on their business. He looked over at the creature that was splayed on the ground from whatever Tessa had done to it. The guard smirked, "you really put him on his rear end. He looked at her sword, "enchanted with electricity is it? That's a valuable weapon you got there."<br/><br/>David was pretty sure that the weapon wasn't enchanted, or at least not with electricity. He and Tessa really needed to talk about what had just happened.<br/><br/>“It’s a nasty business that war, surprised you guys were able to make it with all your limbs attached. And so clean too. Most of the refugees smell quite terribly.”<br/><br/>“Probably because they’re refugees,” David said before he could stop himself.<br/><br/>The guard gave him a very subtle glare before waving towards the castle, “This way. You’ll need to present your papers once you get to Lady Field. S he’ll be assigning you to some part of the castle. You'll have to get rid of that weapon at some point so I'll ask you to let me know and I'll give you a pretty penny for it. ”<br/><br/>They started walking through the market, the smells engulfing them. Some of the food actually smelled delicious. He saw some sort of animal on skewers plunged into a wooden block on the ground. The creatures looked like rabbits, but with two heads and a stinger on the tail. David had to look away when it seemed to him that the eyes of the animals were following him.<br/><br/>As they walked and the guard kept on talking, David wondered why they weren’t seeing any refugees around the market.<br/><br/>“Where are all the refugees?” David asked. The guard stoped and looked at David. They were close to the front gate, the huge mountain side towering over them. The castle seemed to be coming out of the mountain itself.<br/><br/>“Are you going to be causing any trouble?” The Guard asked the two of them.”<br/><br/>“No, Sir, not at all. I was just-“<br/>“Here we are opening our home to you people and you just start throwing around accusations and insinuations.”