160 Initiation

Frey and Doevm emerged from the Underground several minutes later. The ginormous light crystal was at its brightest, signaling midday had come, time for the initiation. As they hurried through the streets, Frey remained silent, his eyes staring at a far-off place. When he inevitably knocked into someone, he apologized and kept moving.

Doevm glanced back at him a couple times but didn't say anything. The building, like the clerk said, jutted out of the red-light district like a sore thumb. Doevm and Frey crossed the wide wooden drawbridge, suspended over a deep body of water with thick chains. Large white stone pillars held up a flat shingled roof which ended when it met the back of the mountain. There were no windows, only metal walls and a large doorway. A single man stood at the edge of the doorway, covered in scratches and plated armor.