As usual, the sun was shining as bright as a polished diamond down on Varrock. It was just before midday and Alex had just awoken from a terrifying nightmare. He sat up, stretched and stood up next to his filfthy wooden bed. After putting on a set of ragged clothes, Alex looked out the window to see that it was extremely sunny outside. Alex looked away from the window and walked into the next room to see his mother sleeping on the couch. His father was probably at the coal mine, working for the weekly pay of 100gp whilst his older sister out with her boyfriend as usual. He opened the main house door and walked outside.
It was absolutely boiling outside and today was the King's birthday. He would be making a speech in the city centre and everybody could go and listen to his great words. The speech would start in half an hour and Alex had a couple of errands to do, one of them was to buy dinner and get clothes for his family. Walking down Clifford Road, he began to examine the poor neighbourhood that he lived in. All of the houses weren't built correctly, most of them having holes in the roof and walls. A man from Ardougne was sitting on top of one of the roofs, having a break from fixing it. Alex felt disgusted, knowing that a lot of people were even poorer than him. There was a woman sleeping behind a bin, the only thing keeping her warm during the cold night was a small, filfthy blanket.
Alex finally got to the marketplace after walking through a lot of dreadful conditions. It was very busy today, there was hardly any space to stand. You could really see a large difference between people here, a lot of people wore ragged clothes, others wore old-fashioned but decent clothes and other people wore extremely expensive clothing. All of the stalls seemed to be selling rapidly. He searched the marketplace until finally locating the food stall. He had 50gp to spend on food so he bought a few pieces of raw cow meat. The most expensive meat the man sold was dragon meat which he sold for 529gp per slice - that is the kind of meat that the rich scum ate. There was one stall that even sold raw human meat, sold for 99gp a slice. Alex had tried it before and he threw up a few seconds after swallowing it. Human meat was foul. He walked around the marketplace and got completely lost in amongst the many people who were a lot taller and healthier than himself. Finally, he reached a clothing stall. The man sold two sets of clean, fashionable clothes to him for 100gp and two pure white dresses for 142gp. The man gave him a clean bag for free and Alex put the clothes and meat inside the bag.
When he arrived home, Alex's mother was drinking a glass of dirty water.
"Hey, mother." Alex said as he sat down.
"Hello." she replied with no expression in her voice, "did you get what I asked you to get?"
"Yes, 5 slices of cow meat and some clothes." Alex handed the bag over to his mother and she looked inside it.
"Thank you." she gave Alex 20gp for completing the errand, "I've also decided to let you go to the thing that's going on at the city centre."
"Yes! Thanks!" Alex was excited about going to see the King. Even though he wasn't going to get to speak to him, he was still getting to see him and hear whatever he was going to say to everyone.
"It starts in about five minutes, so you better head out now. Be sure to be home by dinner."
"I will. Goodbye."
"Bye."