After leaving their party members on the side of the road, Wei and Wandering Sound walked down the cobbled road until they reached a backroad that took them to the outskirts of town. Once they turned into that back road, the scenery around them completely changed.
Where there were once happy villagers bustling all around trying to sell their wares, now there was nothing but silence. The villagers that they could see were but a few, around only three or four that looked to be of ill repute.
It could have been the area they were in, but sights around them were dreary and bleak. The atmosphere was something that wouldn't allow a person to keep their good spirits. The reason for that could have been that the outskirts of the village were where the villages took their animals to get slaughtered.