An Odd Pair Arrive

[Victor Wolfe]

Victor arrived at the small town of Nippur the capitol of New Babylon, considering how difficult it could be to build and maintain civilization in the desert Victor was impressed, it was not a massive expansive city but it had plenty of potential, and with the right people working on it, it could become the most powerful city in the dunes. Victor had helped his empire expand far, but he had never had the chance to see how far his work could help a settlement this small. Then again his last country had not had an extremely powerful ruler leading them.

Victor looked up at a banner flying what must have been the New Babylon flag a glorious golden lions head with an unusual pattern on its eye, with all of this over what appeared to be the sun, he wondered what this symbolized, perhaps it signified that new Babylon will rise like the sun, or that it will be a glorious as the sun is bright. It was always interesting to figure out how a country views themselves through their flags.

Looking behind him to make sure that the girl was still following him, the conversations had been fun and done well to pass the time on what could have been a very boring walk, she was beginning to show signs of fatigue not used to walking through the harsh sands of a desert , Wolfe had made journeys like this before but even he was feeling the burn in his muscles from trying to keep his footing on the wet desert sand.

He looked over her clothing and wondered if he would be able to change his like that too. He decided he may as well try but wondered what he could change, the boots and cloak where more for function over design and he had grown quite attached to them over the years.

Looking up at the flag he remembered that the king Gilgamesh had been wearing fully golden armor and if the flag was mostly gold then it was probably a colour used to represent his Kingdom. Just like the red on his clothing represented the empire that had provided it to him in the first place , Victor smiled at the idea and began working on the new design of his clothing in his head, changing all the red to a dark golden trim, still dark enough for stealth but more befitting of the Kingdom he was visiting.

The pair arrived at a closed wooden gate, probably erected quickly to provided some level of protection to the people inside, after all deserts where a common home for raiders and brigands trying to hide from the authority's in a vast waste land. "Nice to see that there is some care taken to protect the people" Victor thought to himself.

There was no visible guard on the wall to allow entry, maybe many of the residents where still busy watching the Dante's Abyss. Victor decided to do the only polite and well mannered thing possible in this situation. " Shall we knock?" He said to Raina in a joking tone before unsheathing his dagger, and hitting the gate with the metal hilt three times making a large amount of noise as he used all the strength in his arm. " Well let us see if anyone is home" Victor laughed as he re-sheathed his blade and waited for a response from beyond the wall.