The young merchant suddenly stood up, invited William to follow him in a move that looked weird in the latter's eyes. He even stuffed the scrolls William just drew before walking away.
As this young man was kind and naive, William didn't find anything bad in following him around. Unlike what William expected, that young merchant didn't take him upstairs. Instead, he took William downstairs.
The two walked for ten minutes in a path that was lit with torches and candles, before arriving at a narrow hall.
William was sure he went for hundreds of metres under the ground, something that he never expected such a shop to have in the first place. But when he arrived there, he noticed how different this hall was.
The walls weren't made out of rocks, but carefully polished ores that got dark blue and green colours alternating with each other. In the middle of one wall, William saw a big golden wheel and three old men sitting around a golden round table, just in front of this wheel.
