"You have got to be kidding me.
The Palace?"
He gestured in the general direction of the palace of Essyrn, home of the Shah of Essyrn, in disbelief. He couldn't be serious. Except he was, and that kind of shocked him.
"'Tis true, my friend. A knight from the north, they say, much like yourself, except they're saying it was a woman."
"A lady knight? Interesting... Why?"
"Akbar will tell the tale..."
Welcome to Akbar's Emporium, a little shop just off to the side of the main market place. You've seen it before, you've
been here before, and you could swear you've seen the funny little man behind the counter before...but in other countries. This is because...well...he
has been in other countries, running a little shop. He walks to and from them like you do from one room to the next.
However, our focus is a bit more on the man talking to him at the moment, the one described by the shopkeeper as a knight. Sano did nothing to dissuade the notion, even though he was not an official knight by any measure. At the moment, he wasn't even in armor because...well...it's hot out here, and unfortunately the young man had the habit of wearing black. So, standing in his normal everyday clothes, his armor and black mantle were off and he was more-or-less cooling off while listening to this
strange tale from the shopkeeper.
There were no other customers in the shop
at the moment and Sano was buying the water he was drinking now, so it was all good. Anyone walking in right now would be hearing about how a traveler from the north with a bigass sword somehow
snuck into the palace and freed a woman of incredible power from the dungeon, and then after a knocking out or killing just a few guards...vanished without a trace.