The Crowd

Walking out of the bar, I see people gathering near the market. They are acting strangely, with dead silence they are walking in the market and carrying tools.

Recalling the old man's words, how these people would harm me if they believed I had information. I quickly start walking toward the sewer, those people are weird.

After entering the sewer I started to hear noises, like the sound of talking. There are people in the sewers? What is going on, why are they in here?

I decide to creep forward toward the noise, slowly I make it to a point where I can hear a bit better.

"That demon must be down here!"

"But that boy who lives down here would have been killed if that was the case!"

They are talking about me?

"He wasn't in here the past few days, he was drunk at the bar. That kid is a known drunk!"

I don't drink alcohol there, I just chat and learn stuff from people there. I learned how to sell scrap from the bar, I don't know where these people got these lies from.

"Your right! Everyone search the sewers!"

That is a lot of foot steps! Ok time to get my stuff and go, these crazy people are now down here. But why, they are so afraid of the so called dark miasma they don't even hide here from the law.

I quickly run over and grab my stuff, throwing it up and out of the sewer. My coin stash is quickly grabbed as well, the footsteps are now getting closer!

I climbed out of the sewer and quickly stuffed my items in a bag, and began looking around. The whole area that earlier had nobody, now has people tearing the buildings apart.

"What the, they are demolishing everything! Homeless people sometimes live in those empty buildings."

Noticing that they are too focused on the buildings, they somehow haven't spotted me yet. Ok time to escape, spotting a empty field behind the buildings I run over and spot a tree.

The tree was massive with two swings on it, the other kids must have done that to it. Now that I think about it, isn't this an old park? I'll just hide on the top of the tree, according to the old bartender it works when he needs to hide during his travels.