Fair.

As the trio walked up to the Koob entranceway even in the night the mirrored walls had a significant glare about them, and when they entered it was almost more than Aella could take.

“Are those… street lights?”

“yeah, electric too. Pretty cool huh?” Claire was happy too show off his home town.

The whole city was lit up, it seemed like magic too Aella, and even Timon was impressed, he hadn’t seen a city as advanced as this in his travels. “Not bad.” he said, trying his best to sound casual.

“we’ll uhhh, hit the library tomorrow.” Claire said, “There’s a hostel a little way down over here, We’ll be able to rest up there.”

–

The three made their way down the streets on the outskirts of the city, it was all brilliantly lit, and what wasn’t lit was reflecting something that was, and Claire continued her tour speech;

“-and that way we can created an isolated emulation of pre-white event space, allowing for us to use technology and sciences that have since been rendered useless. For example this is the only city in the world that has a railway system, and some of the buildings are so tall they have electric powered elevators.”

“what are they?” Aella asked, still in awe of her surroundings.

“like, rooms that can move. You stand in them and they take you to the floor you want to go to, they are really cool. And you cant see it from this street, but in the canter of the city is the great library, its the biggest there has ever been, and they say the whole knowledge of humankind is in there. But because there is so much, there’s no way one person can learn it all at once. Although there was a rumour that one scholar – oh, here we are. This is home for the night.”

Aella proudly pointed at a building, like the others covered in mirrors and lights, the brightest of which spelt out ‘Madame Quirk’s House for the weary’, it appeared to be pretty small compared to the buildings around it but Aella and Timon both secretly thought it was still a really cool looking place.

“Don’t just stand there gawking at it, we have to go in and reserve our rooms idiots” Claire marched into the hostel and after exchanging glances Timon and Aella followed.

Inside it seemed the whole first flour was a kind of lounge and bar mixed, with sofas, pointed at some box lit up in the corner. Aella and Timon made their way across the room over to Claire who was talking to a friendly looking woman who appeared to be in her later forties.

“Ah, so these are your friends are they sweetie?” the woman smiled at them, “You can call me Que, Claire’s explained your situation so its ok for you to stay the night free, but if you are so tight for money maybe you should consider getting jobs while you are here?”

Que looked at Aella inquisitively, “Your apron… do you have experience waitressing hun?”

“umm, yes.”

“well that settles it then, you can work here to pay for the room and food, how does that sound?”

“ummm…” Aella was unsure, her last job waitressing went very badly, she looked into Que’s eyes and Que just smiled back almost maternally, “…sure.”

“well there we go then, you can attend to your business in town tomorrow and start in the evening. Now, let me show you to your rooms.”