Isadora walked along the large avenues of Ban Ralik, sipping at the
Big City Life
atmosphere and enjoying the sights. She had been there for almost two months
now and felt that she was beginning to get the grip of things. How different
everything was from life back home on Sendar Lake, even the simple fact of
getting fresh fish for dinner. Back home she only had to walk down to the
wharf and the fishermen would sell her some fresh fish, straight from the
lake. Here on the other hand, she had to go to a fish-market where she could
consider herself lucky if the fish was fresher than two days ago. And not
even considering the prices! Three times the money for a third of the
quality. But that was big city life.
She had on the other hand got a very nice place to live. An apartment near
the shoreline in a neighbourhood considered to be ?not too? rough by the
locals, but not nearly as flashy as the ones where most of the other Arch
Mages lived. But she didn?t really mind, the people in the house were
friendly and it still cost enough to nearly give Johan a heart attack when
he heard about the rent. But that was big city life.
Not mentioning all the people. Back home on Lady Lake she had considered a
hundred people many, but in this city she could walk around all day and
never be surrounded by less than ten so many. Wherever she looked, people
worked, ate, slept and lived their lives. But that was big city life.
Nevertheless she had never enjoyed herself more than in these last two
months. She had been to countless meetings with everyone who was anyone
within the council, constantly lobbying for her cause. She had been to
different parties with different customs, eating food she had never heard
off, hearing languages she had problems realising were in fact languages and
not just people clearing their throat and been polite to people she to late
had realised belonged to the menservants and not the hosts. But that was all
part of the big city life.
And life in the big city was all she wanted.
Var i Sverige på bröllop i helgen! Måste erkänna att det var hur gött som helst att komma bort från skiten som händer här i några dagar och lovade mig själv när jag klev på planet i fredags att inte läsa några nyheter om Island tills jag kom tillbaks. Ett löfte jag höll. Tror blodtrycket sjönk med 20-30 och pulsen med minst lika många bpm. Bröllopet då? Jo, det var min barndomsvän och "storebror" PH som gick i det heliga med sin Linn i Klosterkyrkan i Lund. Så nu har de skaffat nybyggd kåk och gått o gift sig. Fan, de är ju mycket vuxnare än jag :) Bröllopsfesten var sedan knappt 100 pers på en gård i Lunds utkanter med mycket god mat, gott vin, gott sällskap och allmänt bra kalas! Klart kompetent och mycket glädje! Men sen tog det inte mer än en dag innan man drogs ner i den allmäna depressionen här på ön igen :( Suck.
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