alhoon wrote:Fild and water carrier
After taking a good look at the lady, wondering how much that handkerchief must be worth, Fild goes to the kid. He passes him a copper piece and says,
"Hi kid. I'm Fild. I'm a plumber from a nearby town. Could you direct me towards the water-seller guild? I would like to see if there's employment there for the likes of me. Any additional info about who I would look for or what to say would be appreciated."
"Sure,Mister Dwarf. But a plumber works with lead, right? I dunno about your home, but in POVERO we don't use lead pipes for drinking water. Maybe that's all right for dwarfs, but it makes the water taste bad for us humans. So my guild got the lead pipes banned way back. We buy all our clay pipes from the Potters,our friends. Maybe we still use lead in the drains. If you want to find plumbers...I dunno, exactly. Look for a pewtersmith. I bet he'd know. "
The kid tilts his cart so Fild can fill a drinking cup.
He says, " But if you still want to see our guild house and talk with the masters, just go..."
He gives Fild detailed directions to a house in the Municipal District.
The house displays a big water jug tilted and pouring a stream. It holds, the boy says, the headquarters of his guild and a small backroom office used by the Potters.
Delight is to him- a far, far upward, and inward delight- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.
-from Moby Dick (Hermann Melville)