The Outcasts I - The Beginning

Where To Go

After about an hour of aimlessly wandering around and trying to get the actual written location from Blue, Delta finally managed to find the inn.

As the door rang to signal an entrance, he examined the bright interior, the white walls with odd blue-toned paintings on them contrast with the dark wood floors and yet match the rugs under the off-white, seemingly comfortable chairs sitting in front of a glass table. The fireplace crackled fakely, but gave off warmth as the overhead lights gave off a copycat warmth in their brightness.

Nearby was the clerk desk of where he was supposed to check in. He saw a Monster innkeeper, a druid with long elf ears, pure white eyes with black cracks forming down her face like lightning, pale blue skin and darker, long blue dreadlocs with golden charms in her hair to pull it out of her face. And, of course, a standard worker's uniform and a name tag reading 'Maria'.

She smiled warmly at Delta, "Hello, are you checking in?" She asked in a melodic, enticing voice.

Delta perked up, quickly turning to her, "Oh, um, yes. Um, what's the room policy here?" He asked, hiding the small child in their arm as they approached the desk.

The lady nodded and floated a pamphlet over to him, "In the pamphlet, the hotel policies are listed. Are you checking in?"

Delta nodded, "Yeah, uh, how much G for a night? I don't need a big room, I won't be staying long." He asked as they searched their pockets and wallet for the gold coins.

She paused for a moment, confused, until she remembered that G had been used before it was all converted to dollars, "Oh, no, G was converted to dollars a long time ago."

Delta stopped, mildly panicked. [Shit, how am I supposed to pay for it now?] They thought, nervously looking back up at her.

The innkeeper just smiled patiently, "Pardon me for asking, but is this your first time on the surface? I don't believe I've seen you around before," she asked politely.

Delta nodded, "Yeah, I'm just visiting. A friend called to get me somewhere so I can meet up with him, said he called here earlier? Name's Blue?" He tried, hoping that Blue had called ahead.

The innkeeper checked the systems and, luckily, she found it. "Ah, yes! He did call ahead. You're set up in room 203 on floor 2." She replied, using her magic to float over a room key to him.

Delta smiled in relief, taking the key quickly, "Good, I thought he did. Thanks!" He smiled back and quickly walked away to find the elevator, knowing the child would get upset if he stalled any longer to get them in a room.

He checked on the boy in their arms, who had surprisingly fallen asleep in Delta's arms and had got himself all cozy.

Delta smiled and chuckled softly as they entered the elevator. They pressed the right button, waiting as the doors closed and the elevator music started.

As he was waiting, they shifted their bag up to make it easier to carry and checked on the kid again.

The boy whined at the noises and whacked his little hand on Delta's chest, upset at being woken up. He pouted and shifted around to hide.

Delta chuckled softly and gently covered the kid's ears, which seemed to calm him down pretty quickly.

The doors opened, and Delta quickly walked out. They were immediately greeted by a sign telling them which rooms were in which direction. Once he was able to figure it out, they quickly rushed to their room.

Once they found their room for the night, he used the key to unlock the door, silently and slowly pushing it open just in case. Once he knew it was safe, he turned on all the lights.