The Goddess

Chapter Twentyfour

We both walked up the single front, wooden-framed and yet wildly carved-out exterior part of the door. Before I was about to open the door, I let in Aura first, realizing that it would be rude for me not to let her in first. It was and still is an old-fashioned human gesture.

While she was walking up to the stone steps of the Tavern, I looked at the hanging wooden board that hung above the door and was bolted and had a blacksmith iron or a particular metallic hanging piece for the sign, and the whole sign was carved out of wood and was written by the wood else that showed a dark color within the wood that was used to make the lettering that looked to be cursive. Still, the language on it was foreign to me, and I wasn't sure what it said, but it showed a carved wooden carving of a creek and also the tree trunks as well that was as well carved with a creek of some kind, and I assumed it was called the Woodcreek Tavern.

But that was just an assumption on my part, based on the visual description of the sign hanging from the wooden exterior of the structural building of both the Pub and Inn.

Aura seemed a little surprised by my kind and got a manly gesture despite me not being a man and only a machine designed to look like a human man.

Aura strolled up the stone-cold steps that led her inside the tavern. Once she was in, I was about to come in as well. Still, I noticed two intricate figures in the distance, away from the lamp posts so that they wouldn't be caught by the lamps outside in the local area. Still, I could I.D. them from the thermal heat signatures, and seeing them standing there, I instantly recognized who they were. The Anthro viper and the Anthro rabbit wore their hoodies, covering and disguising their faces from the dark.

I had a feeling before that they were planning on doing something crucial, but I didn't know what they were planning on doing, and that's what put me on edge.

They seemed to be facing behind me as if they were waiting for someone, and they didn't notice that I was watching them.

Before I could wait any longer to observe what they were planning on doing, Aura grabbed me and pulled me in, causing the door to close at that moment but not loud enough to alert the two hooded creatures that stood outside from the local area.

Aura pulled me inside, and she had a small, concerned look in her eyes. She took me to a corner of the interior parts of what looked to be my correct assumption that we were in a pub. There were a few creatures either at the tables or at the bar stool, the area where the bartender was, and the presumed owner of both the pub and the inn, which is another way of saying either a motel or hotel or a place where people would stay for the night.

Before Aura could move me to concrete so both of us could talk in private, I noticed that interior architecture was similar to a roleplaying board game that was used on Earth called Dungeon and Dragons, where it all starts when the players choose their characters from a pub and use the illustrations either from their imagination or from the handbooks depending on which level you are on in the D&D universe, like the tavern names in the D&D universe were called either The Elfsong Tavern and The Driftwood Tavern.

The pub Aura and I were in looked similar to the human. Fantasy culture is related to certain entertainment media. These media have created books, movies, video games, and TV shows with a similar dynamic to fantasy.

This particular Pub and Inn were similar to certain parts in a television streaming system's Netflix series in the late 2000s, The Witcher, which also showed identical medieval society, clothing, and environment.

Also, it reminded me a little bit of Frodo's and Bilbo Baggin's shire, architecture, and color scheme.

I could use those references because they had a similar artwork designed for the interior parts of it.