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Kenji stood at the gates to the city, his satchel slung across his back, the sun high overhead.
" So this is the great city..." he muttered to himself, staring up the walls at the giant spires, piercing the sky as if they were reaching towards the heavens. He shook his head and continued to walk into the city, being crowded along by traders, merchants, and the general bustle of the street. He felt a scurry up his arm and then whiskers on his neck, his left hand traveled to the spot and the little white mouse obediently jumped on for the ride.
"Little one, you must be more careful now, I would not wish to lose you." He said softly to the mouse as he set it back into his collar.

This quick little conversation earned him a strange look from a man tending a stall of fruit. He threw an Icy cold glare at the man and continued his journey. He wasn't sure what he was going to do, but he decided that the first step would be to find a smithy and try to earn himself an apprenticeship. He spent a while looking, asking directions from people, and upon arriving at wrong destinations, asking someone else for a new place. Just when Kenji was beginning to believe that there were no smiths in the town, he spotted a low, squat building with smoke rising from the top. A grin spread across his face as he recognized the structure.

He walked into the building and struck up a conversation with he smith, the large man agreed to house Kenji for work, starting the following morning. Once the transaction was complete, he asked the man if there was any place near the outskirts of the city where he could exercise in peace.

"Well, there's a place a little ways outside of the city, it's a meadow just beyond the walls, it's a nice place and usually unoccupied" Kenji thanked the man and left his satchel with him, as well as un-clipping his sword belt. He did, however, leave his dagger tucked into his boot, just as a precaution.

He Retraced his steps out of the city, careful to remember the way, as well as the Smith's instructions. He came upon the field from above, as it was on the side of the mountain, he spotted two people in the meadow already and tried to conceal himself, but the mouse was excited after the trip through the city and decided to choose that moment to leap from Kenji to the ground and go scurrying across the meadow towards the two people.