As I got closer to the city gate I slowed my phase down to walking watching the huge gate towering itself up in front of me with huge walls on its sides. I had to step in line with all of the others walking into the city, I saw guards by the gate apparently picking out some to search through their wagons for some reason.
“Hey you there” I looked at the guards, did they mean me? “Yes you young lady, come over here”. I obediently walked over to them a little confused, why had they picked me? “Sorry about this miss but we have to ask you a few questions as your of unknown race”, “Umm, well I'm a pixie”, he wrote down something muttering about all these magical creatures coming to the city at this time of the year. “Not that your just another one, beautiful” and I blushed prettily at his compliment. “Reason for visiting?” I answered bluntly “Curiosity”, he glanced up at me a little at this “You do know that the biggest festival of the year is coming up?”, “No, but that sounds really fun. Thanks for telling me.” and I smiled brightly at him.
The rest of the inspection wasn't very tricky since I didn't carry anything and my cute little dress couldn't hide much. Seems like they didn't want to inspect my magical dimension where I have tons of stuff but then again its not like it shows in any way. He chatted quite a bit more with me and it was first when a big burly man also dressed like a guard barked at the guard to not chat up girls during work that I got to leave and enter the city.
First time entering a city like this was really something, I'm sure I looked really silly standing there gaping at the huge amount of people and all the overwhelming impressions on this main road. I walked down the road happily watching everything around me when I felt my stomach protesting, I hadn't eaten in quite a while but in front of me I could smell all kinds of foods so I continued. The road lead to a big market with lots of stands with all kinds of stuff, I walked up to a stand taking an apple getting a question about paying for it… paying? I had no idea what that was and the man sent me off saying there's no free stuff here. Hungry as I was I distracted a few humans with my magic making them simply ignore me and picking foods of all kinds until I was satisfied.
I noticed a dwarf with a huge beard standing behind a stand having necklaces, swords and all other things one could think of lying on it before him. His wares where completely mesmerizing, beautiful and with such fine details it was hard to think things like these could be made. I walked up to his stand and he peered at me with suspicious eyes “Your not stealing from me miss, tricks like that wont work on me.” I looked up at him, some here doesn't seem to be completely oblivious of magic at least. “What do you mean steal from you?”, “Take from people without paying for it”, “Sorry but I have no idea what this paying thingy is?”, “Money young miss” he held up two flat metal cylinders, I had seen people hand those over between each others here at the market. “Well what does this money thing do”, he looked at me like I was from another planet, well I was… kinda “They hold value and you can exchange them for things that people have”. Oh, so that how it works “Well if you give me those, I hand them over to you, can't I have this necklace then?”, I saw a look of surprise on his face and then it started turning red and with a loud voice “Do you think I'm stupid!? I'm not going to pay for my own things just so you can have them”, “Okay, okay… so, how do I acquire some money quickly then?”, “Well if I knew that I wouldn't be standing here trying to sell these so I can get some money for my own” aaah so that's how it works. I thought for a while, didn't dwarves like rocks and such things “Can I sell something to you so you'll give me some money?” he looked a little bored at me “Well it would have to really be something then” and he looked over my body seeing that I didn't carry anything “and I don't want sex from a creature like you”… oh, I didn't know one could do that for money… seems like most things could be sold or bought apparently.
I reached behind my back searching through my magical dimension for a pretty rock that I had found once in my realm, pulling it out I held it up for him “How about this one?” it looked like his eyes would pop out from their sockets. Well the stone was pretty, crimson red, see through, glowing with naturally infused magic and the sunlight being broken sharply and prettily from it wasn't very bad either.
“Put that away!” he hurried around the stand pulling me behind it and we knelt behind it “Girl, where did you find that?”, “In my homeland, the pixie realm”, “Okay see, I'm willing to pay you 5 gold coins for that one”, “Hmm…” I looked deep into his eyes, greed flashing in them and I was kinda fond of the stone too “No, I want more and something tells me its worth more too.”. Our bargaining started after that getting louder and louder, standing up, arms waving… I'm kinda good at measuring people, learning new things and it was really fun too no wonder they used money. It ended with him pleading to me telling me I was killing him like this, well I got lots of money, the necklace and a pretty ring too. When I handed over the pretty stone to him, he held it reverently a little tear of joy falling from the corner of his left eye. I felt a little bad for being so hard on him so I gave some money back to him thanking him for teaching me all this which made him shine up at me so I asked him lots of questions about the city and things which he gladly answered while looking at the stone at times with a funny smile on his face. He even suggested a taverna at which he told me I would be most welcome and they sold the best dwarven ale one could find around here, the only bad thing was the conceited and disdainful elves.
I put on the pretty necklace and the ring too admiring myself in them, he told me they weren't very valuable actually and that's why he let me have them in the deal. I answered telling him it didn't matter since they matched me and looked good. then I headed off to see more of the city after hugging him and giving him a peck on his big nose which made him blush a little and mutter something about all these frivolous people in this town.
