<div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/ysEooVf.jpg)</div><br/>Velma nodded as they left the academy,<strong>"Yup, well, I have Ylene's order also but she'll be asleep now anyways, or at least not in the mood to entertain.  I'll take it over later tonight.  But yeah, Kirin's Cat House.  Laelith has more then it's share of brothels, quite a few, but Madam Kirin runs one of the only two brothels in the upper noble district of town.  It's the most expensive, the most exclusive, the highest class, well... at least if you ask Madam Kirin.  I take it as a point of pride that she gets her alchemical needs filled by me.  But in truth, I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that she was friends with me Da back in the day.  They used to fight side by side I guess back when the first people landed here twenty some odd years ago and started reclaiming the ruins.  Well, obviously as the city started to get safer and safe, they retired from the life.  Me da opened his tavern obviously.  I remember it a little bit, I was maybe six or seven years old back then?"</strong>She shrugged and continued,<strong> "Kirin had already opened a brothel down on dock side, but about three years ago, after the last wall surge she moved up to the newly reclaimed district."</strong><br/><br/>Miyuki asked<em>"wall surge?"</em><br/><br/>Velma nodded,<strong>"Every few years as adventurers clear out the ruins outside of the wall to the west, they set up palasades and round the clock vigils.  Our defenders work tirelessly for weeks at a time to keep the ruins free of the various beasts and monsters that still live in the ruins.  Then their engineers build a wall further to the west, reclaiming maybe a few streets, a few city blocks.  They then backbuild, building a much larger and more permanant wall behind the first, and that becomes the new western edge of the city  The old wall is taken down and that space converted to new buildings or towers..  Invariably, that new real estate in the space between the new wall and where the old one was is always the highest in demand, which is why usually the higher up you go in the city, the more wealth you'll see." </strong><br/><br/>Velma pointed at the western wall then, now visible rising a good sixty feet into the air above the terrace it sat on, which was just above the one that they were currently on.  "That's the western wall now, been standing there for about four years give or take?  The other reason the nobles  and wealthy like the upper most terraces is the view."  She pointed in the opposite direction off to the east and Miyuki turned to look.  It was breathtaking, the view she saw.  The city of Laelith stretched out before her, and she could see buildings rising over her head, yes, but most of it lay to the west and below her, all the way to the shimmering sea which was reflecting the morning light.<br/><br/><strong>"It's nice isn't it?" </strong>Velma asked with a dreamy voice.