General vs General

We managed to arrive at the arena.

I found myself shellshocked by the sheer amount of people squeezing themselves through the entrances in order to get good seats.

I made the assumption that the city streets were empty because it was early in the morning and the people probably enjoyed themselves late into the night yesterday, but clearly, I was wrong.

Everyone in the city was gathered right here. It was quite the noisy scene, with children just screaming, running about and the people chatting amongst themselves. Guards yelled for the people to better organise themselves, but that wasn’t going to happen any time soon.

“Is there a reason why the tournament’s happening this early?”, Sylphie asked.

I wanted to ask the exact same question. It was still chilly out, I believed. There was no reason to host this when the afternoon and evening were still hours away