Chapter 5
Three Sisters
Avalara grabbed Reya pulling her behind the side of the building and cupping her hand over her mouth. “Sis, you need to be quiet or your going to get us caught.”
Reya nodded in response. She was a beautiful woman, short of stature but with fiery red hair and a smile that would stop even the most faithful of men. She had her hair tied back today and was wearing men’s britches and a tunic with a broad brimmed hat to shade that beauty from view.
Sorilina whispered, “Now is the time, if we don’t do it now we aren’t going to get our chance.” She glanced around the corner, noticing no one was out in the front of the building.
Avalara was a tom-boy, with a simple beauty of her own, though not one she openly flaunted or made any attempts to take advantage of. Where Reya had a smile she was known for Avalara had a scowl. Today the three girls were similarly dressed, as if to disguise themselves. They seemed to be sneaking about, watching for anyone that would give them away.
Sorilina obviously the leader of the three sisters, kept her eyes sharp and darting around for she knew even though they were far from home they should be on their guard in case someone should recognize them. Moving forward and around the corner she led the three out from behind the building out into the dusty dirt road with the famous Mount Pyre off in the distance, towering tall among the low clouds that seemed to be drawn to the mountain top. She looked up to their destination, tripping over a rock as she was so intent on her surroundings she forgot to look directly in front of herself, catching her step and continuing on to the brothel. Now came the tricky part.
The girls opened the door, reading the name of the place they were entering, The Shining Lass was what the sign on the outside read. Everyone in the place looked to the three as they entered, the brothel a mix of men from most of the races, humans, dwarves, halflings and even a couple gnomes. Quite a draw to a medium sized town, Sorilina was surprised at the mix. That only held her at the door for a second longer than she thought she should be there as she scanned the room. The men looked away from them as soon as they saw what they thought they were. Disguised as women in men’s clothes the three girls had come under the guise of being the more commonly known ‘dikes.’
They found a table that was unoccupied and sat down, talking quietly to each other. “You remember the plan right?” Sorilina stated taking charge, making it look to any onlookers as if she were whispering something intimate to the two, smiling at the scantily clad women in the room and acting the part well.
“Of course…,” Avalara turned her sisters chin toward her with a light touch of her fingers, and leaned in giving her sister a kiss on the lips sealing the appearance of who they were supposed to be today. “Now if you would stop gazing around, you’ve got all you need right here.” Stated loud enough for those around them to hear.
Reya just sat back, blushing and embarrassed by her sisters, though playing the part of the shy one very well. Her meekness reaching out though to those around her, she turned, catching a waitress to the table and whispering something in her ear, the two giggled and the waitress walked away winking back to Reya.
Sorilina raised her brow looking to Reya and that only made her blush all the more. Reya whispered to her sisters, “I have to play my part too.” Her ear tips and cheeks flushing red.
Avalara and Sorilina couldn’t help but laugh at that having thought that Reya was just going to sit there and blush the entire time when they did all the work she had made the first move to approach one of the workers. The room was a pretty typical bar style with wood floors, a bar, tables set up to one side and the other side had pillows and blankets where some of the men were laying with the girls or had them grinding their hips on top of them. The establishment was obviously successful, just from looking around and seeing the number of people there in the middle of the day.
Finally settling down from her laughter Sorilina gazed around really taking in her surroundings. Noting a back door that likely went to the kitchen, a side door to employee quarters, and a staircase in the back left hand side of the room going to the second floor. All made of wood, simply made though obviously well taken care of as they appeared as if they were scrubbed and washed clean to the point that there wasn’t a speck of dust in the place other than the dirt brought in from customers. She had heard of the places renowned from many though-out the continent of Quintarth, a popular region of Plythora that held the Mountain Pyre, The Great City Krindal, an elven court in GreenWood and the beautiful Lake Silver Moon. From town to town as they traveled she had asked about it, many curious as to why a girl was so interested in a brothel, but even more wanted to tell their tale of the place, especially after she had gotten a few ales into them.
The waitress came back over with what looked like a ticket on a tray. Reya grinned widely, and excitedly putting up three gold marks on the tray in exchange for the ticket and then giving the waitress a few coppers for herself. She took the ticket, pushing it out into the middle of their table. Their ticket to gain access to where they would need to go. One gold mark for each of them, a high price, though worth every gold if what they were here for was where it was supposed to be. The three girls exchanged looks as if saying to each other, “Are you ready?”
Sorilina took one more look around, this time counting the number of guards, one at the bottom of the stairs a big and burly fellow but it didn’t appear as if he had any weapons. Then at the door there were two others with their arms crossed, all large men, though none had any obvious swords or clubs, though she knew they would likely use a chair or something in the room that was at their access if needed. The girls had come in with no obvious weapons showing, but Sorilina knew she had twenty knives hiding in her outfit and her sisters were likely to have close to the same number. Hopefully it wouldn’t come to fighting, but it was better to be safe.
Sorilina grabbed the ticket from the middle of the table, smirking to her two sisters. “Well let us go get our prize.” She grinned and her sisters stood following her, Sorilina held the ticket at her side as they walked over to the large guard at the bottom of the stairs. She wanted to make sure her knives were within reaching distance should anyone give them away before they got where they were heading.
Approaching the guard she held out the ticket, showing him what they had ordered. The guard nodded and went creaking up the stairs the stairs screaming under his weight, though holding strong. Sorilina made a note as the guard turned that the man had a weapon concealed on his ankle and underneath the back of his shirt, she wasn’t able to make out what the weapons were but the knowledge that they did have something to defend themselves was useful. She looked back once more over the room, her sisters doing the same thing, Reya gasping at the site as one of the women on the pillows began dancing around taking her clothes off.
They waited a couple minutes and then the guard came back with three girls coming down behind him, each in a flowing silk dress that left little to the imagination. With the heat the girls dresses were stuck to themselves with the perspiration wetting the dresses to show everything that was underneath them. Reya blushed even deeper, Avalara laughed at her sister not having believed it was possible for her to get any redder, and Sorilina smiled up to the three girls, taking in their size and measuring them with her mind. Each was human, each was small and all three would be easy to deal with, herself and her sisters hid their strength from view under their baggy clothes. She knew even though herself and her sisters were not nearly as large as the male guards, they would be able to easily overtake the girls who would likely cower and scream at the sight of any type of weapon.
