<em>Just a short answer to the contacts question.</em><br/><br/>During her previous stay, Felice had been acquinted with several of the clockwork masters in the Westside - at least, well enough to be on first-name-basis with them. Of course, she had at leasy an idea where to find them... though they were an impulsive lot.<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">There was the fair Gerdi, who was small of stature, but dominated the gynaceum by her natural strength in all sports that required such. Then there was the fiery-headed Birgitte, who was matchless when it came to speed, until Felice came...but then she preferred to spend her time with a book, on the drawing board, or praying to the Law.<br/>The drawing board was actually the only place these two girls met, Felice had observed, though they were always friendly to each other. GerdI loved nothing more than sitting on the quay, talking to sailors about their travels...and then she often went and made good investments based on the information.<br/>Then there were the men - Ivar, who loved torsion springs and it was rumoured he was working on a prototype for a clockwork-powered human; Nigel, who was seldom seen on the drawing board, claiming that he received inspiration from beating up the other participants in the fist-fighting circle in the androceum (but was usually to be found in the mixed pool, so she didn't know when he is looking for ideas, either); the brothers Osulf and Osvald, fair-haired both, always together, always one-upping each other, competing in everything - from courting Birgitte (which had gotten them nowhere, last time she was in town), to making more money, or a better prototype of a weird device. But they still supported each other when push came to shove, as she had witnessed in a bar brawl, though she had been exempted from having to participate in that one.<br/>She had even been introduced to their Master, Eluf. The middle-aged man had looked at her with eyes that made her glad she wasn't alone in the room with him.</div></div>