The crowd start greeting to the man and leave as the man shown up, he returned it's favors by nodding his head.
Vaterian let go of Igor and turn to the man. "Sorry Miseur. We just having some argument between each other" although he knew it's hard to believe for anybody, but he still said it anyway.
"Interesting, I wonder what Topic can let two men fight on the street, I hope you don't mind acknowledging me." The man replied. Not an unexpected request for them, everybody had some degree of curiosity.
"We were talking about... the architecture over this city, I had some disagreement with my mate. He thought the building in this city look better than in Wester." Maybe telling the truth is better than lying, at least that may let them get off the hook.
The man turned toward Igor and pat on his shoulder "I saw you as a man of culture. Surely this city had the best architecture in whole country, those Markish can't keep up with modern art style under the Reingard church's restriction. you will be welcome in this city, if you keep in line with our rule. Tell me your name my comrade."
"Yes sir! My name is Einhaven, student from Wester University!" Igor shout out loud and make a face to Vaterian. It made Vaterian sigh "When would this guy grow up?" He mumbling to himself.
Such an obvious and impolite move can't escape from the man's eye, but he just smiles and carry on. "And who is this boy, who follow the way of church? There are not many loyal followers of the church left in this land."
"That guy is Alexandro, my servant. But he also gets the privileges to study at the university because of my generosity, how ungrateful is he to assault me like that." Igor make a joke to relief the situation. A laughter followed by the joke; it seems like it works very well.
"I never saw a servant would hit his master at his stomach and being completely fine. If that is the case, our jail won't fill with that many prisoners. Next time just remember to control yourself in public, trying to maintain order of a city is not an easy job." said the man, he put away the thing just done by those young boys and introduce himself.
"My name is Stefan Teller, the Stadthalter of this city appointed the grand duke himself, representing his authority over this land, I welcome you to our city. It been a long time I saw such a strong tie between two individuals, I wonder what bring you to this city, especially the "Mister old-school" hard to believe such a person will travel to another city. "
"Yes sir, I come from Karchidon and now I need to go back to my hometown." Answered by Igor, but what Stefan care about is on Vaterian, or Alexandro. "So why is this guy following you?" "He adopted by my family, for the slum of Karchidon, might be threw out by some Tharcian Noble, but who care."
Vaterian look at Igor displease by the statement he made, but in the eye of Stefan it is just an unhappiness on his past being revealed.
"No wonder you guys don't look like master and servant, more like brother or friend. How does you guys planned to go back to Karchidon? it is obvious you guys don't had horses, did you guys plan to rent a coach? If you guys don't aware about it, those coin forged by Mathar league is far more valuable than ours. Surely as a member city of Mathar league those coin would be easy to obtain."
As Stefan completed his sentence, Vaterian sneered and said "No wonder all those people had such a huge smile whenever we pay them, although we plan to went back to Karchidon with coach but sadly most of those money was being spend by this guy on what he called "Relationship Building", I hope he won't control by the lower-half of his body but it seems like it not possible. The last 10 Titus we bring from Karichidon now also laid on the hand of the coachman, I bet he will have a good dream tonight."
"Hey! The whole thing I did with those ladies is family friendly! you can just ask them and they will told you that I am the most gentle guy in the world!"
"It just because all of them are already married and you had no balls to fulfil them!" "I not using the balls to fulfil them I was using my..."
Hearing these wild conversation Stefan know he need to stop it now, otherwise they will fight again on this topic "Stay clam you both! thanks for letting me know all your fetishes Einhaven. Now! what was your plan on the rest of the journey." Stefan made a decision in his mind, Never let this Kid even close to his family.
"Walk with our own feet?" Both Youngster reply at the same time.
"OK, seems like you guys had no idea how harsh the condition could be in the Faust walkway during winter. Unless you willing to non-stop walking for the whole month, you won't get out from it before winter arrive."
"So, Sir? What alternative did we had, to reach Karchidon? We barely had any money left on us." asked Igor.
"As you known, the only entrance to Faust walkway is this city. There's always some caravan staying in this city and ready to head on to north. I believe that can help you a lot, and the only thing you need to pay for is to help them on their work, I believe some basic Math won't be a trouble from the student from Wester Uni." Stefan give out his advice, same as what Vaterian planned, no surprise because that what most people did.
"But Miseur, how do we find a caravan in this city? it's not like we are familiar to this city or something. In fact, this is our first time to walk in this city."
"No worries, you were not the first people that I encounter with similar problem, I help a lot of people solve theirs', one more won't make me feel stressful. It's sad that the grand duke won't allowed me to sleep on the street, it would be a violation on his prestige, otherwise I could help out more persons." Said Stefan with a smile on his face, serve with passion and honour might be the phrase to describe him.
"Come here and follow me, I will lead you to the place where the caravan usually stayed, but you guys need to win the chance by yourself, not everyone can gain the favour of the merchant from Mathar league." Stefan walked to a horse near them, which he used to come here but covered by the crowd earlier, that's why the Youngsters didn't notice it.
Vaterian and Igor realized the statement Stefan made is a bit weird, but they quickly ignore it as there are more important issue to focus on. They follow up the step of Stefan and get beside him.
Stefan grabbed the rein of the horse with his right hand but he not get up to the saddle, he just walk slowly with the horse beside it, the youngster Space out for a while but soon they heard the sound of Stadthalter, "What are you guys waiting for? follow up!"
They quickly catch up to the man and walk together at the left side of it, toward their destination.