Richard Struggle - Evacuate the Masquerade: (Episodic Novella 1 - Season 1) by JM Coombs

Author:JM Coombs [Coombs, JM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-02T22:00:00+00:00

Just to make life easy for them, the ticket office was located all the way on the other side of the docks. Several boats apart from theirs were also unloading cargo at the piers scattered along the waterfront — mostly food by the looks of it.

The town appeared to be laid out like a large T. The docks ran along the coast and a single long street speared into the island from the middle, possibly all the way to the island's central hill. Along the way they passed all sorts of interesting things — inns and taverns by the dozen, the large wooden bell tower that had welcomed them to the island, a dozen young mages all helping to carry a long wooden beam to one of the unfinished buildings, and a large open space with all manner of stalls set up — a market.

After three years of hunting vintage tools in such places up and down the country, Richard couldn't help but drag both his eyes and his feet as they passed.

One stall sold metal cutlery. Another seemed to sell nuts and seeds of every type imaginable. Yet another happily took old Earth money and converted it to Creakylid's new currency — the chad — at rates that made Richard insanely thankful he'd only brought trade goods.

Richard spotted the man from the boat with the dolphin watching daughter haggling with one of the stall keepers. Much like many of the other stall keepers, he held himself like a big fish in a small pond — puffer fish, in his case — round like a sphere of polished stone, much like some of the bosses Richard had worked for back at the builders yard. All around the man lay all manner of wooden objects — spoons, bowls, coffee tables, and many others, all immaculately carved into works of art that took Richard's breath away. One object in particular drew his appreciation — a chair with a sleeping dragon carved all along the back rest, looking eerily like the dragon he'd seen in Susie's crystal ball memory. Around the back of the stall, Richard noticed a middle aged woman wearing a red, long-sleeved shirt that had been rolled up to her shoulders, whittling away at a block of wood with a wickedly sharp looking knife. Was she the one who did all those carvings? Maybe they could have a chat about them… he'd always wondered about—

"C'mon, Richard." Elizabeth called impatiently back to him. "We can do shopping afterwards."

Richard reluctantly tore his gaze away from the stall and back to the dockside. Elizabeth was right, of course, and quickly proven even more so as, by the time they got to the ticket office, there was already a small crowd surrounding it.

They examined the large sign outside.

Priority tickets to Ophelia Island [East] and Coral Island [West] — 150 chad.

Please note: Once you have left The Second Island, you may NOT return until after the great migration is complete. Tickets are NON refundable.

If you cannot afford a priority ticket, you may sign up to the daily lottery.

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