Kidnapped to Another World

Chapter 133

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 Dreamweaver Chapter 133

Right after we got back from exiting the dungeon we start on trying to get attention and protection from Moose and Jimmy. Cassius takes the lead in this part of the operation; and its best this way because he's well known in this city and his name will establish credibility. His lieutenant and a couple others go with us.

We go into the city guard office a short time later after travelling by coach and carriage.

Right now Cassius is talking to the Captain of the Guard up close and private while the rest of us are sort of distanced between the two. They are in hushed voices as the guard captain is behind his desk with pen and paper with ink well ready to write. Then his pen starts moving lightning fast as he writes up the statements. He trades off halfway through with his scribe while sometimes coaching him on the proper word etiquette.

He looks over it with his assistant scribe and Cassius at long last. "That looks good," he finally says as they finalize it. Then he's carrying sworn written statements by both me and Gyle as well as observations of others in Cassius team, written by proxy scribe of the accounts of murder committed by Moose and Jimmy. These also get notarized and stamped by different legal officials and the town guard while they go over it with the Captain of the guard.

Already the guards look ready to sack them psychologically. They probably hire only dwarves that get off on this sort of feeling of pushing people down.

For now it looks like there's still paperwork, even if it's a dwarven kingdom.

I wonder what will happen, I think while trying to read their faces. Part of me wonders if doing stuff on paper like this will even be backed up by actual muscle.

The Captain of the City Guard had already heard this before from others but didn't have any witness or credible incident reports from anyone that was at the location when the crime was committed. This is our first chance to do so. He's nodding anxiously.

It didn't take long for them to finish the arrest warrant on Jimmy and Moose.

The sick part of the joke is we convinced the city guard to put 'Moose' as his name on his wanted poster just for fun. To be fair, his other alias' are also listed, but in smaller font size underneath. Before we even left the Captain of the Guard they already had him drawn up with a pretty good likeness and emphasizing the more deplorable parts of his features. And because the bounty hunter industry in the dwarven town is bustling the wanted posters are made with beautifully smelling paper and ink and very identifiable caricature that made his nostrils too big just to spite him. The guys that draw up the wanted posters and stuff apparently hang out at city guard stations in the city, so when something comes in to do they put a lot of speed into it.

But when Cassius comes back to meet us outside he's really unhappy.

He sighed.

And then he motions for us to leave the city guard's watchtower area even, that's in the middle of the city. We're now outside the building and talking on a street corner while dwarven traders are passing the area all around us.

It's kind of unexpected that somehow Cassius is becoming an ally despite trying to blow us up earlier. How bizarre is that? I still don't trust him, but he's effective while he's working with us and I can't argue against that.

Curiously the wealthy and people like Cassius have what look like 17th century carriages with elaborate woodwork and a wagon chassis and wheels. It looks like what you might guess was a design and architecture from the revolutionary war era of the United States in Earth being pulled by mountain sheep. Cassius has his own personal carriage which we all had ridden in to get here.