Snippet #1766006

-IC-
I walk through the city of Kale, my face distraught as I look about at the destruction. I hear the coughs of sick citizens and a dog barks somewhere in the depths of the poor city. Beggars raise their hands to me as they sum up my wealth. I reach into a coinpurse at my belt and pull a few coins from it, gently placing them in the dirty hands of the desperate people. They whisper Gods bless you, sir. And I continue on, three soldiers in Parthenex uniform walk forth, the man leading looks me up and down as he approaches and laughs, whispering to his companions. They stop abruptly blocking my path and I look around to see a couple citizens looking at the soldiers then at me and they shake their heads wearily.
"Why hello, there." The leader says, he scowls staring.
"Good evening, sirs." I smile politely at the trio and go to step around them, and one immediatley pushes me back laughing. The leader gives a grin and pulls a short sword from it's sheathe.
"We have reason to believe that you're a Stone Bearer spy of sorts, maybe if you allowed us to lighten up that coin purse, we could overlook you..For your sake." He taps the coin purse with the flat of his blade..