Arc Chronicles

Perview

Chapter VII

If you've never been to Mardale, I doubt I can truly impose upon you the size of the city. Even calling it was city didn't do it justice. Every so-called city-state was smaller than Mardale. It was like ten or twenty cities in one. A mass of cities fused by some ancient, long-forgotten race. Maybe the gods gifted it to us when they brought us to Elysium, either way, it was so vast.

Scattered throughout Mardale were dozens of smaller districts. Hillside, New Port, Waterside, Old Town, Millers Way, Farm Markets, Merchants Square, and hundreds more. The districts were large enough that each had its own dedicated City Watch. For a month, I had made my home in Old Town and Millers Way. Millers Way was good for begging and Old Town had kinder watchmen.

I had not only assaulted watchmen but stolen from them. My face was covered in dirt like the rest of me, but I couldn't risk being discovered as the attacker. The City Watch stuck together like mortar and bricks. They wouldn't tol