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Rael twirled her spear, the rat’s blood splattering on the wall behind her as she came to face Graves, Kallie, Alja, and the corpses of the rats that littered this particular corridor of Thorinn’s sewer system.

The smells were still awful and even a few weeks after the glitch she hadn’t completely gotten used to it. 

Murky water. Rat shit. Rot. These were not the kind of things that the normal stomach got used to and before today she had never climbed into a sewer before. She had lost her lunch over it and Graves had made fun of her for it while Alja made a big-bellied laugh at her expense. It was funny, yeah, she had to admit. She still didn’t like being the butt of anyone’s jokes, however, and filed the disservice into the annals of her brain. It was here minutes-upon-minutes later and they were here still doing the job. 

Benkei had stayed behind. Siegfried and Sif had their own errands. Rael wasn’t even sure she had seen Kazuki for most of the morning before she and Graves decided to find some busywork. Had the city sewers been a dungeon she would’ve been a little worried, but Graves was sufficient albeit unpleasant about keeping everyone’s wounds in order. Not that anyone of them had gotten injured yet. After all, it was just a bunch of rats. 

She sighed, [color=#A84B5E]“That’s another group of them taken care of.”[/color]

Kallie said something about patching their armor as Graves removed his sword from the rat’s body. 

Rael didn’t think much of it as she looked at her clothes. There was only so much patchwork could do. Eventually everyone was going to have to buy new clothes and armor, though most wayfarers were hoarding now. The group that left for the dungeon was one of the few groups that had initiative. When Benkei suggested their group join them after barely surviving the dungeon during the glitch she knew what Sif and Siegfried were going to say before they said it. Others were unsure. The Japanese student opted to go if everyone agreed with it. Turns out not everyone did, so she found something else to do. The town guard they had spoken to, Githa, had told them that the [i]root[/i] of the infestation had to be dealt with and that they’d get full payment for destroying the nest. Rael had never exterminated rats back in Japan so she didn’t know how rats worked. All she knew is that after six dire rats and several of their offspring she was already bored of it.

How long would it take to search out the whole sewers? The rats they had killed were increasing in number so they were clearly in the right direction. 

She peered around a corner, down another corridor. She heard movement in the pitch black darkness, little rats moving in the water somewhere down the way. 

[color=#A84B5E]“More corridors. Still no nest.”[/color]

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