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Zasha paused a moment in her work and leaned on her broom.

"Well, if the Ironworker's Guild and the Waxmaker's Guild work together a bit better than they have been, it shouldn't take more than a month. However, with the way they've been feuding lately there's no telling how long it will be. I just wish that silly girl in the Waxmaker's hadn't slighted the head guildsman of the Ironworker's son--such petty things that cause so many problems."

She looked upwards at the empty space where once there had been criss-crossing lines bearing lanterns and shrugged. "I'm sure we can use torches and such until the work in done on new lanterns, it just means we'll need to hire more than just one lamplighter to keep up the light."

Returning to her sweeping, Zasha just hoped that the extra help would accept payment in trade that one of the members of her cabinet or herself could provide. There really was no town coffer to pull from since most everything was done by trade in Hestian, and they had a sparse enough treasury without trading somewhat expensive items or things from the public food stores just to light the streets.

After they finished sweeping up the wreckage, Zasha went back into the Silverworker's Guild and returned to work. Her thoughts churned with ideas and feuds and to-do lists, and the easiest way to settle them was to work.




Kit took one last sad look at the clean roadway and scampered off the back of the roof he'd been hiding on, hoping he hadn't been seen.

A dirt-covered boy dressed in raggedy garments staggered through the streets. He could have easily been mistaken for a common beggar given his uncouth appearance, but that was not something he was worrying about. Alucard had been walking on foot for many hours without even a drop of water to give him a bit of relief from his thirst, "I wonder what water tastes like around here.."

He imagined himself jumping into the ocean and drinking up all the water it had. It wasn't long before he collapsed to the ground. At this point all he was doing was moving his limbs across the ground as though he were swimming, "Yaaayyy...surfs up~~~"

"waaaattterrrr...weeee~~~" He stopped moving his limbs, resting the side of his face against the ground. He had no clue that he wasn't at the ocean at all, and he thought that Loralei was just another person at the beach.

Alucard looked up and saw that he was surrounded by buildings and not in fact in the ocean. Then he screamed, "AAAHH!! Who took the ocean away?!"

"Yah! I've been traveling and traveling and...I forgot to bring water with me, so I thought I'd come out here to get some water and..." Alucard sat up and scratched his head, "I didn't make it to the ocean I guess. I'm thirsty..."

Then he perked up a bit, wearing a wide smile on his face as he looked up at Loralei, "Do you know the nearest place I can get something to drink?"

"Nah, I don't have a family...or at least I don't think so," He slowed his response a little, being occupied with trying to recollect what he knew about his family. He couldn't remember, but that didn't bother him. He had lived by himself for many years and there wasn't a single time within those years where he had given thought to his family. Alucard gave a short shrug. Then he picked up his pace and answered the other half of her question happily, "Well, my name's Alucard Dantes. People think it's scary. Do you think it's scary? What's your name?"

"I usually travel around so I don't worry about places to stay. When I need to find a place to sleep I just choose whatever place looks comfortable to sleep on. Ooo ooo!! One time I accidentally slept near an ant hill and got ants in my pants in the morning! Ha ha!" Alucard laughed at how much the ants tickled him back then.