Second Story Man: A GameLitLitRPG Adventure (The Bad Guys Book 2) by Eric Ugland

Author:Eric Ugland [Ugland, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Publisher: Air Quotes Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2019-10-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

But it wasn’t cold out.

I stepped through the door, wrapped in a blanket I’d found in my training apartment, and it was back to normal outside. One more step in the blanket, and I’d be sweating.

Looking around, I couldn't see anything that would dictate a reason for such an extreme temperature swing. It was really creepy. I tossed the blanket back inside the building, and headed over to Gideon’s shop. It was time to close out another account.

There were more guard patrols out than usual, and I was definitely a person of interest now. I got more looks that one night than I had any night before. There’d definitely been a shift in mood that day. I suppose that’s what happens when a member of government is suddenly impacted.

No one confronted me though, even though they had every reason to question an Elf walking around alone at that hour. That’s when I realized that it was just for show. The minister had clearly rattled some cages, and whoever was at the top of the City Guard heap put more guards on patrol. But any orders to really crack down hadn’t been given.

Gideon was in when I got to his shop. Naturally. The lights were on, the curtains pulled back and the door was open. However, he hadn’t regained his pallor from yesterday. He still looked pretty shitty, his skin almost elephant grey and droopy to the point where I questioned if his skin suit needed restitching. One more nail in the coffin of the man actually being human, which I didn’t believe at that point anyway. But it was interesting to see such obvious proof. It was almost like his human suit needed to be tailored a bit. If that’s what it was. I’m not saying he was wearing a suit, just, well, whatever. He was freaky-looking.

“Evergreen,” he said with a slight bow as I walked in. “Two nights in a row. We are honored with your visit.”

I smiled back at him, and put my coin on the counter. He picked it up, reached out to me, did the thing with the warm and the cold, and then put my coin back on the counter. Which I’d never really thought of before. How could he hold the coin at the same time as he was holding both my hands?

“What is it we may help you with?” he asked.

“I, uh,” I stammered a second because I kind of really wanted to ask him about the whole two hands and a coin thing. And yet, he loved secrecy. Maybe another night. “I found this,” I said, and I put the thief’s account coin on the counter.

“Do you wish to claim the account?”

“I do. This guy’s not coming back.”

“Information we do not need,” Gideon said with a slight smile. “We will retrieve the holdings.”

Gideon closed his eyes, and some of the little cloaked figures rushed out and opened crates and pulled apart boxes. One climbed up a set of shelves to pull a long case off of one of the rafters above.

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