>>5622133>slaughterhouseUnlike the singular, tall slaughterhouse at Cinderpath, the one in Clawflash is a collective of buildings that form a rectangle, with a large courtyard in the middle. Rather than being situated on the ground, the buildings are built on top of large pillars ー a style of traditional architecture that was much more common several decades back, due to the more prevalent flooding and Clawflash being less developed.
Based on the amount of buildings connected to each other, Warin deduces that decrepit slaughterhouse with fading colors and cracked wood was once a large house for a moderately wealthy family.
They must’ve had thirty.. maybe fourty people here.Today, only a dozen or so remain. Most are in the basement ー the area under the buildings that remain cool due to constant airflow, it is the perfect place for cutting up meat and placing the fragments of bones inside crates. A few leave and return with buckets of water. Rarely do they return to the houses above them.
Old men with gray hair and wrinkly arms. They work in relative silence compared to the ever noisy city and moving waters.
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It is the early afternoon. They leave the cold basement beneath and eat their lunch in the courtyard, resting underneath the large tree in the middle. Warin decides to ask them for information.
