Bright Sands and Terrible Ambitions [Brigidnan Colonization of Khiva]

[Flo]

Anedouah was a guard for the Gobahmu provincial library. It was a relatively important job, so far as jobs in the palace district were. It was relatively low pressure (no one tried stealing old scrolls) and paid fairly well and was one of the few jobs in the district that didnt require the worker be of the noble caste. 

It had been an otherwise uneventful morning until the strangers approached. There had been some talk of them, with their funny hats and strange tongues, but he didn't expect to see them this deep into the city. It wasn't illegal for them to be up this far, but it was uncommon. 

And then they started to speak.

They were clearly foreign - *very* foreign - as many of their words were completely unintelligible. Anedouah stared at them trying to understand something... anything... A small crowd began to gather to stare as well.

A cleric from the library came out to check the commotion before hearing some near east language. It was fragmented and very broken, but he understood at least a few words. 

He waved at them all to get into the library, where there could be some privacy, perhaps, and maybe then could he understand what they were speaking.