A guard stood on one side of the door.
"Let me guess. Someone stole your sweetheart." He commented in a mocking tone. Amdesa rolled her eyes and walked forward. The streets were quite wide, but the houses seemed to loom, and it was quite misty. They walked to a bridge and turned right over a wooden walkway, catching a glimpse of the murky, sluggish river below. Walking forwards, under a lantern, they came to a house. Amdesa unlocked the door and walked in.
It had a cosy, cheery environment, a fire in the hearth, soup on the fire, food on the shelves. Amdesa walked into the next room, which had a large bed. Turning to a cupboard, she opened it and gave them each a set of nondescript brown clothes and a pair of brown boots each. They quickly changed, and waited while Amdesa changed too, into the same thing. She took off her leather gauntlets to reveal long fingers with sharp nails, and her helmet to show pointed black ears and raven black hair. They exited via the same door, back into the street. They turned right, and went over a bridge, and turned left. They went under a sign 'The Bee and the Barb' and entered.
It was warm in the pub, and at the nearest table was a woman with a huge axe strapped to her back. Suddenly, the woman and another man were exchanging insults, then blows. The man sat next to the woman joined in. Weapons drawn, they hacked at each other until the first man was killed, and a soldier ran in and was killed too. Amdesa had pulled them out of this fight, and they stood eyes wide.
"Why doesn't someone do something?" Hermione whispered to the boys. Ron shrugged. There were two people who looked like lizards. Amdesa talked with one of them, quickly, and walked back. "Come on." She said. They walked out.
"Hah!"
"There he is!"
"Get him!"
"Stay here!" Amdesa told them. She joined the guards and ran after a man in brown, with a hood up. Drawing a sword, she caught him up and killed him, then rifled through his pockets.
"He was a thief." She said. "Come on." She led them back to her house. "Sleep on my bed; I have business to take care of. See you in the morning." She said, and then ran out. Sleep overtook them shortly after.
