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OK, here's a synopsis of the first reading...I may add to it some point when I have more time
A woman arrives on foot at Ehrlitans eastern gate. Unlike the other travellers who arrive from that direction she is not covered in dust, but clothed in tight silks, her hair and face wrapped. She noted that fortunately the guards were male and didn’t pay attention to anything except the swing of her hips as she walked.
The woman walks through the city, seeming to know her destination, until she arrives at the central tel, a run-down area. She enters a tavern heading down a side passageway to the garden with a small fountain. Unwrapping the scarf she washes her face before entering the tavern. It’s atmosphere is gloomy with the smoke of durhang, rustleaf and itralbe, all of the tables are occupied and the tavern is three quarters full.
She smiles to herself a little sadly as she hears a young man telling some friends of an adventure.
Calling to the barkeep she orders a bottle of wine and asks for a room with a lock. He asks her is she with Dujek’s army, and she replies no, not with any army.
The woman drinks her way through the bottle as the evening progresses, the tavern getting steadily busier, herself being jostled more often than was necessary. Finishing the bottle she makes her way up the stairs, and knows she is being followed. The man comes round the corner to find a knife tip pressed under his eye. She tells him to go back downstairs and applies a little more pressure to the knife. She reels slightly and accidentally slices his cheek open, at which point he stumbles back downstairs.
The woman heads off to find her own room.
