Crooked walls, crooked halls

After an extensive bathroom break later, Lenora was back with Drifus. She now had a limp and walked with mild pain in her abdomen.

"Just what did she do to you?" Drifus said. "If it's what I think it is, just tell me. I'll raze this whole city to the-"

"Relax. It was just a slug. It was… in me; she was just kind enough to show me how to… get it out."

The guards had let them go, and they were finally in the bustling city.

This particular one was a border city and hosted many houses, mostly belonging to soldiers and peasants. But perhaps not as much as the other megacities. With an area of about twenty kilometers, it was a small but dense city. Lots and lots of shops everywhere, people walking about, clean roads and no bad smell.

"It was in you?" Drifus said. "And you didn't notice?"

"I did. I just didn't think it was that."

"How did you even get it out?"

"Why would I tell you that?" Lenora, appalled, walked faster.