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You stare at the Gatehouse, no longer minding that you are concealed by nothing more than the darkness of the shadows and the blackness of your dress. Obviously, things are not in a good way for the Mount. There has been banditry on the cities' doorstep - and much more has darkened that stoop recently. The calamity on Oiler's Wharf, the Estrangement at the Morgue and in the Midden and you know not where else, even the fire that could have been at the 'Poonist's Perch - though if there ever was a house that could stand a bit of burning ... but could things get worse, or are you just jumping at shadows? Father would have ... told you whatever he believed would get you do to as he wanted. Which in this case, you feel would be not mentioning anything. Had he actually said something bad was going to happen, you would have roused much quicker. As it was, it was him actually saying your name out loud, the first time in years you had heard it spoken, that tipped you off that he considered this job to be ... well, dangerous. Had you been aware of the stakes any earlier, you might have been able to keep up with him.
Or he might not have said anything because he didn't have anything to say. Just because he felt - or that you feel that he felt - that this score was going to be dangerous, it does not necessarily follow that he knew what is happening right now. In fact, if he did, then wouldn't he say six days? Or five? Really, you don't even know what is going on here. You don't even know if <span class="mu-i">anything</span> is going on here. You know that this particular Gatehouse is closed, and the streets are deserted. Moreover, you feel that given your understanding of the threat - if you can even call a dozen bandits a threat to a city of more than eighteen thousand, the largest in the Principalities a threat - that a second muster, that sending out enough men to the point that Gates need to be shut feels like an overreaction. Understanding this, you assume that you have to be missing something ... but as to what it might be, or how you possibly could find out, you don't know.
What you do know is that you are now keen on getting inside the Landward Walls. Rather keen indeed.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> You will approach this Gatehouse, and hail it. Perhaps someone is inside after all.
> You will approach this Gatehouse, and case the Walls around it for a potential route through or over.
> You will continue down the Outer Belt, in the direction of the Closet, looking for an open Gatehouse.
