Re: Summoning Street
You all return to Summoning Street shortly before sunset and take up a position in an alley across the way and two doors down. The shop is in plain view. The line of hopeful customers is still there, though much shorter. But apparenty the people are out of luck. The strapping young men with saps are telling people the shop is closing for the night. Some...many actually...protest. But the guards are firm though polite. The crod begins to break up. You do see some people who move away but don't quit the scene. Perhaps they are planning to stay overnight so as to secure a place near the front of tomorrow's line.
The shop's assistants leave, and it appears the shop is locking up when someone shouts, "WAIT!" A middle aged woman comes barreling down the street. You see one of the vials clutched in her hand. "WAIT!!!"
She nearly plows into one of the guards, who stops her as gently as her momentum allows. You hear him say something but the woman leaps back and waves the vial in his face. "It didn'work! My Johann is still with tha sickness! He still got the Veil! It didn' work!"
She says it loud enough thst everyone on the street can hear her. The guard is asking her to quiet down but she is amost screaming the same thing over and over. The guards look confused and those who were going to spend the night are muttering angrily. Things look like they may go bad quickly.
Before you can move to intervene though, a woman comes out of the shop and uickly approaches the screaming woman. "Hey now. Hey. I am Vendra. This is my shop. What's wrong here?" Vendra is a beauty. Her small moon like face is crwned by a full head of rich brown hair. Even from here you can see her deep green eyes. She smiles and it is quite a radiant smile. The distraught customer begins to calm down.
Vendra speaks to her in a low soft voice and soon calms the woman down. Yu can't hear what either says but in a few moments, Vendra is leading the woman into the shop. She says something to the guards. Most of the men leave though one takes up a station just outside the door. Vendra opens the door for the lady and enters behind her. The door shuts firmly.
The sun sets.
Some of the crowd wander away. Others find places to sit or lay down for the night. The guard on duty yawns and looks up at the sky. After an hour, neither Vendra or the distraught woman have emerged from the shop.