3 Chapter 3: Wall of Garuh

"Yup, I'm gonna offer some help in the library. By the way why are you here? Aren't you always busy doing something?" she looked at him suspiciously.

He was always doing something to use up that bottomless energy of his. Even if he couldn't find a job for the day, he'd scrub the floors, fix the bed, anything to pass the time. He was always moving.

"Oh! Yeah, Laeus and I are going out for today. No jobs. We're going to get some wood for the windows. And probably for the door too. And our table is kinda leaning to the floor so maybe some for that too. And our floorboa-"

"Alright, alright I get it. But do you guys really have to go out there?" she said casting Nulu a worried glance.

"What choice do we have Naera? We need the money that we all earn for food, clothing and other important stuff. We can't afford to buy wood, so we decided we're just gonna have to toughen up, go outside and get some wood." she smiled sadly to Nulu.

"I know. Just be careful out there, alright? Be quick about getting those wood, no dawdling or do anything you don't need to do. Just do what you have to do quickly out there and remember to have your ears in the sky."

"I know, I know. You always say that before we go."

"I know, it's just that I worry for guys everytime you go out there. You know how dangerous it is to go outside the walls."

"It's alright Naera, I'm a big boy now. I can handle myself quite well out there. I bet I'm big enough to punch the daylight out of any dragon that comes our way! Wait. You're gonna go the library right?"

"Yes, I'm going to be heading straight there right now."

"But, you didn't eat breakfast!" he exclaimed worriedly.

"Don't worry about me, I don't like breakfast as much as you, besides if I don't eat breakfast there would be more for you." She said as she patted his head. Nulu frowned and looked worriedly at her still despite her words.

"Well, at least take some bread so that you can eat something if you ever get hungry." he said as he quickly ran and took a loaf of bread from the table that thankfully wasn't moldy yet.

"Thank you, you take care now too."  She said as she waved goodbye.

Zaela, Quedo, Xunna and Tharlo left early to find work. Hopefully they would find a job that would pay a decent amount to get them by.

She walked past the scurrying rats and houses that looked worse or just as worse as her house on her way to the wall and observed the people who lived with her inside the wall of Omire.

It was a bustling place even though it was poor, with people selling unsanitary street food and fake jewelry, shirtless workers carrying heavy sacks on their backs, and skinny dogs roaming around eating trash littered on the street.

People chatting and gossiping outside their houses and children with tattered clothes running and screaming in joy.

It was not a long walk as to get there though if anyone was new here they might get lost for there is a lot of crossroads here inside the Wall of Omire and little space in between houses.

"Left, right, right, pass by Felin's store, left, straight" she said to herself making sure she still knew the way.

And after a few more turns she now stared at the Wall of Garuh.

"What is your business inside the wall of Garuh?" A bored guard named Dertul who stood by the gate on the wall asked.

"I've been going here for the past two years, do I really have to answer that? Do you seriously not recognize my face?" She seriously doubts that he at least doesn't recognize her face.

He asks the same question every day and quite frankly it's getting quite annoying to answer the same question every day to a person that should know by now what's your business behind the wall is.

"Don't get smart with me you disgusting dirt rag." he said angrily at her though he seemed too lazy to really want to do anything about his anger towards her. She sighed and said in a monotone voice.

"I am going to work inside as an assistant to a librarian named Ilara." he grumbled as he opened the gate still glaring at her.