The Keepers
A few metres away, children played around a jumble of bricks like a giant mushroom cross-bred with a house. A woman in rustic attire came out to yell at them, only to gasp and run away as she noticed the intruders. The kids merely froze and stared at the trio.
The mayor was a woman of princely attitude and ageless beauty. Dark hair, swept back and tied in a bun framed an oval face of striking palor, and her blue-gray dress matched the bronze of the gazebo they were in. She held the Orb of Seeking delicately, reflections from the lantern above dancing inside the crystal.
A short man in a crumpled, worn-out three-piece suit was running in their direction, waving a small telescope.
"Your honor! Your honor! You have to see this!" He stopped by them, struggling to straighten up his hair and glasses while the mayor peeked through the telescope in the indicated direction.
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