Raven follows his guide through the books and scrolls, wonders and
oddments of the market. The Author was good to his word, providing a
middle aged man dressed in an oversize Girl Guide uniform to lead
him. And very informative he is too, chattering away with
informative babble about the objects and places of note that they
pass.
“...and that stall to your left, the one with all the hats on it,
that's the stall of Jake the Rake, a notable milliner to the court of
the Author, though to be honest he's been a hatter to many of the
Fears, they do have their fads, the Fears I mean, ah, now, over
there, that lightning bolt in the storm jar, that's believed to be
the very first literary storm, very rare, should be on display in a
museum, if there was a museum in the Weave, which there isn't, now
along here is the alley of duellists...”
