Magic without a magic

[sturdycoldsteel]

Steel wakes up. This is not where she went to sleep. She has a peek at the stream -

- And lets out a surprised yelp at the nonsensical cacophony.

"What in the blue hells is this place?" No answer is immediately apparent, so she climbs to the top of the ravine, carefully avoiding the various inexplicable things in the area. The snake-goat hybrid was particularly grotesque.

The top of the ravine has a road. She tries to fly, but can't. Again, very strange. This is a pretty nice road, physically, but magically it's completely undeveloped. She walks towards the city, peeking at the stream once in a while only to see fog, and seeking an explanation.

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[namesthesky]

The employees have to pay taxes too - Aya already knows how to handle it, since she did her former mistress's accounting, and helps the others. Aya moves to a different boarding house - she'd already switched to a different room after Steel made the extra space redundant and stopped paying for it, but now, feeling stable in her ongoing income, she's closer to the workspaces with a better kitchen and a room to herself.