We did it! As promised here is the extra chapter on Friday! A special thank you to @oliokos and @Anthony_Beasley, for the golden tickets! I am so grateful to all readers even if you just comnt or vote with power stones. Have a good one.
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"You seem to be in an awfully good mood today."
Ayemon remarked while they were eating breakfast.
Aldrich stopped eating his olet to answer, "yeah, what can I say? Good sleep does that to you hahahaha."
"Can you stop being so happy? Seeing you in a good mood puts in a terrible one."
"....you need to seek so professional help."
"So, are you ready for today?"
"Is the fake identity finished?"
"Not yet, I ant about finding a place."
"How badly do you want to kick out? Anyway I'm ready of course. I will try the 6th pioneer street first I may have so luck there, I have a good feeling about it. Or I will look in Berry Lane, I think."
"Don't forget to buy shoes first, boots are for outdoors rugged work."
"Sure, by the way I will go to a barber first. My hair has been bothering lately."
"Sure thing. I just thought that you might be short on money."
"? Short on money? ...I'm not."
"Well I don't care where you got the money as long as you don't steal it."
"Is looting the dead considered stealing?"
"Of course not. The dead don't need money, now do they? The money is only useful for the living! In fact you could consider it a kind of help that the dead give to the living, ah, such good people."
"That's what I thought."
Aldrich left the mansion after his al and turned to the street, he stopped at a sign that indicated the place where carriages were allowed to pick up custors.
Aldrich didn't wait long or rather didn't wait at all, a carriage stopped in front of him imdiately.
"Where to, sir?" Asked the carriage driver a man with greyed out hair.
"I want to go to a barber and to buy so shoe. It would be better if it was close to the academy district."
"So sowhere on 3rd pioneer street?"
"Yeah that works nicely."
"That'll be two coppers."
The carriage drove swiftly and smoothly. From this, he inferred that the driver was an experienced man who knew how to control the carriage.
After twenty minutes or so the carriage stopped and Aldrich saw a boardwalk lined the street in front of him.
Aldrich payed the driver and chose a respectable looking shop that has a sign that read: Excellent hair care for n. Aldrich opened the half glass door and entered the barber shop.
The first thing he saw was a man strapped on a strange looking chair even his head was forced into place by small leather belt around his forehead. The barber was injecting him in the neck with needle.
The needle had a transparent tube attached and it was currently emptying out a funny looking liquid into the man's neck.
"Are ya gonna co in or are ya gonna block the way son." A voice said.
Aldrich looked at the half-elf standing beside him. He was too focused on the scene before him to notice.
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"Eh, I'm sorry, I was absentminded for a mont."
"This yer first ti at a surgeon barber's shop I take it?"
Aldrich nodded.
"Well don't keep standing there, take a seat right there."
Aldrich followed the instructions, there were three other strange seats besides the occupied one, they were empty.
Aldrich took his seat on one of them, the seat was warped with hard leather but it wasn't unpleasant. It was painted red and brown, so of the colors were faded, telling of the chair's age.
"What's a surgeon barber? Shouldn't a barber just cut hair?"
Actually he only learned what a barber is when he asked Ayemon. In Wakefield there was no such job. If you want your hair cut just ask so to do it for you.
"Surgeon barbers do cut hair but they also double as physicians. If you can't afford a real physician."
"Oh, cities have all sorts of jobs."
"Well we do." Laughed the half-elf.
"So, How do want your hair done? Sothing flashy? Sothing intellectual?"
"Just a little pruning is all."
"No no, look at your hair. I have to fix this. My pride as a barber will not allow to let you walk around with that ss."
"Eeh? like I said just so pruning, you get right? Like trimming."
"Yeah, yeah sure, I got you, just leave it to ."
The barber used all sorts of tools on Aldrich and cleaned his wild hair, he cut it a bit lower from the back of the neck and behind the ears. Then he washed his hair in the sink and dried it with a towel after that he put on so gel and combed the hair nicely.
Aldrich walked out of the barber's shop looking like a new man. Even though the barber didn't listen to him, the results spoke for themselves.
Aldrich didn't need to call a carriage, this boardwalk street had many shops for all needs. A few of which were shoe shops. Aldrich decided on one that had a board which read: Nadeen, Shoemaker and cobbler.
The shop had many cupboards lined against the walls of the shop, the doors of the cabinets were removed so onlookers can see the shoes on display.
"Hello," Aldrich greeted as he entered the shop. At first he thought that the shop was empty when he saw an old halfling sitting on a wooden chair behind a desk.
"Welco young human." The female halfling replied. As she ssed around with a hamr and an awl.
"What are you here for custom? Repair?"
"I want to buy so shoes."
"What size?"
"Size? What do an?"
"How old are you?"
"Fifteen and a half."
"Fifteen? You look a little big for fifteen. Let see."
The halfling woman got out of her seat and started searching the shoes rows. Finally she took out three.
"This one here is laced-up walking shoe, these are button-ups with low heels for formal occasions or if you want to impress soone."
"I'll take one for each type."
"Whoa, easy there try them out first."
"oh yeah sure."
Aldrich tried the shoes on but they turned out to be too small for him and the woman brought another pair, this ti bigger and they fit perfectly.
"So your size is eight rember that when you go to buy shoes again."
"Thank you, I will rember that. How much will that be?"
"Fourteen coppers. Seven for each."
"That's too much, ten seems more fitting."
"In the city people don't haggle."
"Well good thing I'm not from the city."
"Smartass, give thirteen and we'll have a deal."
"Twelve."
"Fine, but when your shoes need repair or you want to buy so new ones you know where to co."
"Deal."
"Also tell your friends to co here I'll give them a nice discount."
"Have a nice day." Aldrich exited the shop with his new shoes on and his old boots in a paper-bag. The shoes felt comfortable but alien.
His overall look, now was very similar to the surrounding people around him. No longer were people giving him strange looks as he passed by.
Aldrich stopped another private carriage and told the driver to drop him at 6th pioneer street. Aldrich looked around at the five and six story buildings, so were wide and had different wings.
Aldrich looked the blue and white building with the fenced black painted iron and gate. This was the supposed building. Aldrich stopped by the gate and looked around.
He had forgotten how to contact the owner. There was so instructions but among the many advertisents he read it was lost on him.
"Hi! Just a mont." Aldrich saw a blonde girl exist the building and waved at her.
"Hi there," the girl turned to him and smiled.
"Hi, yeah, didn't an to bother. Actually I'm looking for the owner about an advertisent for an open apartnt."
The girl blinked her erald eyes for a mont before replied, "well the owner is not here at all. But you're in luck, if you want to see the apartnt talk to the head guard there. He can make all the arrangents for you."
She pointed at a tiny room beside the gate, it was so unassuming that he just didn't notice it or maybe he didn't have the ti to look carefully enough.
"Oh, now that's embarrassing, thank you for the help all the sa. I'm Aldrich."
"Oh no, I don't mind. We might beco neighbors if you take the apartnt it's only right we help each other out. I'm Irene. I'll see you around, Aldrich."
"Yeah, see you." Aldrich was glad that he stopped Irene to ask her, she was such a nice and pretty girl.
Aldrich then walked over to the tiny room and knocked three tis on the door. The door was opened by a black haired dwarf, whom Aldrich assud to be the guard.
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