As the day draws on Sarge & Mejest head across town in the Crossings Drizzle, after leaving the Cathedral they head into Grievings to check on Crow.
The arrive at a soup kitchen, set up in a burned out building, open on three sides with one solid stone back wall, in which is set a large black iron cauldron, surprisingly cheerful locals chop donated vegetables and are keeping the cauldron warm making and serving a thin broth and what little bread they have.
Serge and Mejest spy Crow, still disguised as Phineas working to cut vegetables near the cauldron (careful of he steel and iron Crow)
They also she a young woman, in her late teens or early twenties, she has She wears a homespun black dress, a pointed cap, and heavy boots. She’s pretty, with pale skin, red hair, and bright green eyes.
Sarge also notices man in a leather hauberk and leather cap clearly staking out the kitchen from a alcove in an ally across the street.
There is an air of calm about the soup kitchen that Sarge is immediately suspicious of as some kind of magic.
Sarge notes a slightly glowing golden orb earing the gives Ezekia a radiant glow. But she only wears one ear ring.
Sarge and Mejest talk to Ezekia.
Sarge gets Ezekia to shake is metal gauntleted hand. She doesn't suddenly become a Changling.
Sarge points out the look out across the street to Ezekia. She says she will go talk to him, indicating that he might need help and that she intends to help him. She doesn’t seem concerned for her own safety.
Sarge points him out and the look out slinks off in to the ally his cover blown.
Mejest follows the look out Sarge stays behind.
Mejest trails him all the way to surprisingly clean side alley the abuts the wall next to Redemption. The White Fronter Building has painted gold edges, and red silk fabric hanging in the upper windows, it is build in a roman-esque style with Pillars by the large main door which has steps leading up to it. It puts Mejest in mind of temple but it is on the wrong side of the wall.
The Look out goes around the side of the building and in through a white painted door that is almost concealed on the side of the building.
Mejest notices 4 burley looking men doing various mundane tasks on the street, in actuality they all seem to be watching the white building. He surmises they are guards.
The street has not vagrants or animals, and seems to have been swept it is clear of rubbish. Awnings on the top of the white building stretch out over the street and keep off much of the rain. Mejest decides to give find out what the places is but decides to get a safe distance away.
At the end of the alley, to turn right here is to go into Redemption, he seems a man in sackcloth with a ratty dog with white curled fir stained with soot and dirt. The fellow is chatty after Mejest gives him a copper penny. The man calls him "My Lord". Mejest asks him about he building he says it's the Gilded Purse a fancy upper class brothel of some sort that he has never seen inside but where all pleasures can be sated. It is run by someone called Lady Dalliance. The vagrant relates a story of having been moved on by the guards in the alley after they kicked him in the 'nuts', but they don't seem to care about him now he's moved across the street. The vagrant offers to watch the place for Majest but he doesn't take him up on the offer.
Mejest decides to head back to the soup Kitchen to check on Sarge.