"My companions want to rest, so we should. Can you take us to the nearest inn?"
"Inn?" Prince Aliberti was confused for a moment.
"Uhhh... a place where you can buy food and bedding for a night?" "Ah, now I understand. We call these houses of rest. There is one in Fort Arrival. I will take you there." Prince and his entourage followed after Akk, who stopped only for a brief moment to allow the guards to open the heavy wooden doors. The timber was seemingly lightweight, as pair of humans opened the gates with ease by simply pushing the doors outwards. Like all the pale folk, they stared curiously at the visitors that the centaur brought in.
Inside the fortress was a rather bleak sight. There was a small wooden building with a flag representing black fist on greyish background. Numerous smaller hovels and houses 'carved' out of the rock floor surrounded it.
"GNARRRLLLLHHH." Some of the spit came from the mouth of an ugly beast; it was a reptile, as tall as a horse, covered in dark green scales, with two tiny beady eyes and two rows of teeth inside its traingle-shaped mouth.
"Easy, easy..." An uniformed man patted the beast, sitting on its back without a sadle. He then struck the sides of the giant lizard with his knees and it took off, slowly walking across the road. Akk didn't mind, but Aurelian, onto whose face the spit flew, probably did.
The Centaur stopped before a building, or rather set of chambers, carved into a small hill. The wooden windows were closed but faint candlelight was shining through the cracks.
"This is 'The First Door', the only inn in this cavern. H'hr is the restmaster. He is elderly, a bit grumpy, and always suspicious of any and every two-legs, so don't mind his remarks. Do you have money?" "Money from our world... will it be accepted?" "What kind of metal?" "Gold?" "Hmm. If you put enough on the table, H'hr might accept it. Here, underground, iron and steel are more valuable, but minted coins need the Imperial stamp on them. But like I said, gold might do. I will now go and visit the garrison and tell them of you arrival, and questions." With that, the centaur moved further while Prince looked at the resthouse's door.
"People living underground, riding on giant lizards, eating mold and mushrooms for breakfast and considering gold a worthless metal. This world's crazy."
"Come on, Aliberti. We should at least, um, sample the cuisine..." It was Rosana who opened the door and stepped in; her brother followed, and so did his companions.
Inside 'The First Door' were sets of small rock stools and tables; not real furniture, but carved pieces of rock, connected to the floor. Miners and stoneworkers of this crazy world must be quite skilled.
The resthouse wasn't really busy. One man was munching on something in the corner, while a brown-skinned gargoyle was sitting behind a counter - carved from the rock as well - eyeing the newcomers. Once the strangers approached, he lifted his clawed hand and poked Aliberti on cheek.
"Watch it.""Hmph. Your skin isn't pale. I'm not sure I like sick people in here. "This is our natural skin color... in the place we live in, at least.""Ne'er heard of a place where people live with the deadly fireskin, but that is not my business. Roasted mushrooms' a coin, mold ale two, lizard steak three, and meat soup is four but you gonna have to wait. Bed's ten," He looked at the group.
"But I only have a single common room with six beds. You do have coins, yes?" Aliberti fished out the group's bag of money and opened it, showing golden coins of his homeland. The gargoyle fished out one, looked it over, bit it, and then put it back to bag.
"Freaky people, freaky coinage, I guess. Hmph. Allright, fine, I will take it. One-to-five ratio, though. "What!" Rosana stared in disbelief, Aliberti gritted his teeth, the gargoyle shrugged - and a quiet chuckle came from the corner of the resthouse. What to do...
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