Amazon Expedient by Piers Anthony & Kenneth Kelly

Author:Piers Anthony & Kenneth Kelly [Anthony, Piers & Kelly, Kenneth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781947381063
Publisher: Dreaming Big Publications
Published: 2018-05-22T22:00:00+00:00

As they traversed the bustling streets of the Imperial City on their way to the palace, Benny took some time to take in his surroundings. The city was the largest and most beautiful he’d ever seen. He had been shocked at the size of Galver Dorn when he’d first visited it with Dale and Cycleze, but now that town seemed like a shanty. The buildings reached up into the sky and were of an exotic architecture he’d never seen before; gardens, manmade waterfalls, and sculptures filled the streets. Most of the citizens were extremely tall, like the border guard they had met outside the portal. These people all wore exotic clothing and seemed to shun Benny and his fellow travelers.

“These people are a bunch of snobs,” Benny said to Dale.

“They’re just cautious of foreigners, but I will admit it often impedes their judgments of others,” Dale replied.

As they walked past an alley way, Benny saw a young boy dressed in rags appear from the shadows. He was dirty and unkempt, but Benny could tell that he had green skin and yellowish hair. He mumbled something to Dale and held out his hands. The boy was a beggar. Dale, instead of driving off the boy as Benny thought he would, knelt down beside the kid and ruffled his hair. The kid smiled, revealing rotten teeth, and Dale handed him a gold coin. He jumped with glee and ran back into the shadows of the alley. The aristocrats gave cries of surprise and insult as he wound between their legs.

“He had green skin…” Helena said, “Is he of the same race as Purp?”

“You could say that…they are all human,” Dale said. “They just have different colored skin. It’s the side effect of the mass number of spells wizards used in the ancient civil wars between Upper and Lower Sultry. Some have red, purple or green skin, while others have striped, marbled or polka-dotted skin like Purp. They have a history of being abused and rejected because of their skin tones.”

“But just because they have different colored skin doesn’t make them any less important. If anything, I think it makes them all the more beautiful,” Virtue said. She was clearly upset by the poor health of the green boy.

“I agree, but unfortunately racism is a disease that infests even a great nation like Upper Sultry. This is the main reason for Purp's bad attitude. His father was arrested and thrown in jail for stealing food for his starving family and his mother died of some sickness soon afterwards. They lived in the slums of this very city, and most of Purp's siblings died off…all save his sister.” Dale stopped at the mention of his butler's relative.

“And where is his sister now?” Helena asked.

“She’s a prostitute in the Imperial slums.” Dale shed a tear when he said this. “Purp isn’t a bad person. I know he comes off as a sarcastic prick sometimes, but he’s had as hard a life as any could have….a lot harder than I ever had.

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