Five-minute fiction - 22:43-22:48
The Citys streets bustled with activity as Grim and Darker pushed their through the crowds that thronged in the market square and the street of butchers. There were too many people in the City, too many by half. They made the air stink, not to mention the road, the buildings, and just about everything else. The heat of the season before the onset of the rains made things even worse. People lost their tempers, through insults, fists, and occasionally bricks in their frustrations, but few people bothered Grim, or the much larger Darker as they went about their business. Certain people it never payed to tangle with.
They slowed to a stop at a street just off the main thoroughfare, called Clockwork Alley by the locals, it was the street where the Citys resident mechanical experts congregated much to the populaces chagrin. A crowd of people, more tightly packed than those in the main street were clustered around one of the shops. Clearly incensed
The Citys streets bustled with activity as Grim and Darker pushed their through the crowds that thronged in the market square and the street of butchers. There were too many people in the City, too many by half. They made the air stink, not to mention the road, the buildings, and just about everything else. The heat of the season before the onset of the rains made things even worse. People lost their tempers, through insults, fists, and occasionally bricks in their frustrations, but few people bothered Grim, or the much larger Darker as they went about their business. Certain people it never payed to tangle with.
They slowed to a stop at a street just off the main thoroughfare, called Clockwork Alley by the locals, it was the street where the Citys resident mechanical experts congregated much to the populaces chagrin. A crowd of people, more tightly packed than those in the main street were clustered around one of the shops. Clearly incensed
