fandomhigh | Want to be a Hero?, Friday, 4th Period

Cara had not set the Danger Shop up to resemble the preserve again today, huzzah!

Upon entering students might have noticed the large room, with its walls of sandstone and comfortable looking sofas scattered around, they might have noticed the bar with its wooden kegs and metal flasks, they might have noticed the tasteful silk hangings bordering doors and... artistic murals. But what they probably noticed was the number of highly attractive women (and men) wearing clothes that ranged from low-cut to scandalous to barely existent to requiring impressive feats of engineering not to fall off in a stiff breeze.

"Now it may happen that in the course of your heroing you'll need to conduct a manhunt," Cara said, looking suspiciously like the cat that'd gotten the canary in cream. "When your quarry is male, almost invariably your first and last stop on this chase will be the nearest brothel." Just in case there were any doubts about where exactly class was taking place today.

"Even on the exceedingly off chance you don't find your man," Cara's tone made it clear how likely she thought that wasn't. "Places like these are invaluable sources of local gossip and information because an astounding number of people loose all sense of discretion the moment sex is on the table."

"Today you have to charm the whereabouts of a miscreant you're chasing out of one of these lovely persons of negotiable virtue." Cara told them. "And I mean charm, anyone making trouble is liable to be tossed out on their ear. If they're lucky."

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One of the very few problems with being equally susceptible to men and to women, as Anders was, was that the brothel offered twice as many opportunities for distraction for him as were available for his classmates who were firmer in their leanings.

He kept his eyes firmly above the neck as he smiled at one of the ... employees. "You look like someone who knows what's going on around here. Could I talk to you for a minute?"

The man, who wore nothing above the waist but a smile, and trousers that might as well have been painted on below it, turned that smile on Anders. "You can talk to me all night if you want."

"I wish," Anders said, forgetting what he was supposed to be doing for a long moment. "But I've got a bit of business to take care of before I can have any fun. Have you seen --"

He rattled off a brief description of the person Cara had told them to look for.

"Oh, them," the man said, with a look of distaste. "They're not allowed back until they sober up and pay for the damages."

"Any idea where they would have taken off to?" Anders sighed. Of course he'd gotten the one who might be halfway across town by now -- though it might be easy to track them by the trail of destruction.

Well, it's not like Cara had told them they had to actually catch anyone, just figure out where they were.

"If they're not passed out in an alley, probably at the Broken Hart," the man told Anders. "But you don't want to go there." For starters, he didn't work there.

"Thanks. Out of curiosity, what's wrong with the Broken Hart?" asked Anders, who was in absolutely no rush to end this extremely educational conversation.

And Cara cared deeply about your education, Anders. Well, today she cared more about flirting with Surreal, but the point stood.

"It's the closest inn," he told him. "It has an absolutely terrible reputation."

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