However solid the waves may have seemed to the villagers in the distance, Safer's Legion had to row across the water to the society. Wordlessly, they approached the civilization, mild waves carrying the bases of buildings in a whirlwind around the church and bobbing around all else. Precariously, Soal directed the Legion to enter the village, and evade the circling buildings on the surface.
Before the village, there lay still a booth in which a horse-man stood, awaiting the arrival of any visitors, in this case the Un-Characters (and Half-Character). They in unison halted the progress of the canoe as it settled at the booth's side, through which the horse-man was looking.
"What brings hybrids across the sea in a boat?" the horse-man was on the verge of laughter. "This is crazy-talk." Expectant of illogical sentences, the Legion received what they had planned to face. "Guards, call in to entryway."
The legionnaires just stared at the horse-man in curiosity until three horse-men mounted on the backs of man-horses. I knew this would happen, Soal rolled his eyes as the three horse-men on the water's surface raised spears to ward off the intruders.
"Out! Out!" the booth horse-man wrung his hoof-fists, "Hybrids have no place in our city! Evacuate before punishment commences."
Doing as they were told, the Legion meticulously turned the canoe one hundred and eighty degrees to row away from and around the village in hopes of reaching the colorful storm; the site of the key. If the legionnaires were unwelcome here, then that must have meant that Un-Characters were frowned upon throughout Yassón. And what was that about "hybrids"? Soal pondered. Well, another unanswered question for another day.
The storm was imminent. But our Legion could accept no help from the rude horse-men of the village. What they were to discover was to be discovered on their own.
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