[quote=@Mara Velrose]
Mara spun around facing the man. "O-o-oh!" She stammered. "I, um...can you tell me a bit about this area? I've been traveling for some time."
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Humphrey laughed again.
[color=fff7ca]"There's nothing to worry about young lady! Well, I can tell you that this place is the East Market! The best place to shop for anything you could possibly need! If you're talking more specifically, then this pawn shop is in the southeastern quarter. There are about 9 or 10 'quarters' in the marketplace—10 because we merged with North Market years ago. That part's called the 'old north quarter' simply because that quarter is where the North Market [i]used[/i] to be... Unfortunately there's absolutely no order in the quarters, so the shops there are more or less completely random as far as an outside observer is concerned... and there's no map of the place. If you need to find something specific, just ask someone and they'll point you to a place or two they might know about."[/color]

Humphrey was stroking his beard, standing in place and staring off into space as he spoke.
[color=fff7ca]"If you're not from around here, then you might be surprised to find a very wide variety of faces around here. Lots of different sentient species come through this market, but that's one of the things that makes this place so special. Thanks to that, there's almost nothing you can't find for sale here!"[/color]

Humphrey lowered his eyes to look at Amara.
[color=fff7ca]"But that's enough rambling from this old fellow! Is there anything in particular you might be looking for? I know a lot more places than any old Joe you might run into by chance."[/color]