Evendiss in particular would beeline for the baths, complaining about both the heat and the dust.<br/><br/>Ipeq is a large city, said to have been wished into existence by a pharaoh who had bound a genie; given that the walls have seen more than seven thousand years of service, protecting the fertile regions of Osirion, that's a perfectly believable theory. The town had a strong military presence, with regular patrols of guards, and small guardhouses near each major intersection. A fight here would receive a rapid response, to say the least.<br/><br/>Which meant that he had a problem, when he spotted two of his former cult members, sitting in a cafe across the street from the inn he was staying out, watching him emerge, and smiling.