"I think that's the hidden city!" I said as we moved over an open plain towards a high town.
"It couldn't be, it was too easy to find." Randylyl said matter of factly.
"For us it was, but not for just anyone!" I stated proudly.
"There have been signs for the past ten miles pointing in the direction of the hidden city..." Randylyl muttered.
"Those were to mislead the ignorant." I replied with a sense of certainty.
"You couldn't mislead anyone, it's right infront of us in the open just about in the middle of the continent!" Randylyl shot back heatedly.
"Exactly! It's so well hidden that they can afford not to even hide it at all!" I spoke with satisfaction in my voice and Randylyl just shook his head and chuckled as we approached the gates and knocked.
"Not nobody gets in to see the wizard not nobody not no how." Said a small gnomish gentleman as he slid open a small peep hole in the great doors.
"Oh I'm sorry, we wanted the hidden city, not Muthos." I apologized and then turned to leave.
"Hold on a second." Randylyl said. "They're faking it, Muthos looked way different remember?"
I looked to him and thought about it before nodding. Just as I did the thick doors creeped open and we were ushered into the city. "You have proven worthy of entering. May your stay be a peaceful one and your first child be a masculine child."
"We're just friends thanks." Randylyl said with a raised brow.
Meanwhile, in the city's rulers office:
"Our treasurey is empty, and granary stocks are dwindling my liege." An advisor said mournfully.
"Well we've survived this long by letting people 'discover' our 'hidden' city and then buy tons of souvenirs to prove that they've been here, I don't see why our economy can't survive on what's propped it up since tuesday."
"Times aren't like they were then. There's a lot going on in the world and people just don't have time to go and wander in search of hidden cities, and I think everyone in the world has been here already and been told that they're the first person to pass through our walls, so the originality is wearing off. We need publicity. Maybe you could ravish someone." The advisor suggested helpfully.
"No, what we need is a war, a really good excuse to leave our hiding and make ourselves known. Just as he said this a breathless attendant ran in.
"My lord! There are two adventurers here demanding your aid in a battle for the fate of the world. I tried to tell them we had a very tiny military given to the fact that we're a hidden city but then one of them threatened to ravish me so I promised I'd come and tell you that they want to see you." She said in a hurried voice.
The king just grinned to his advisor. "Show them in. We shall go forth from our walls in the name of this worthy quest (whatever it happens to be) and it may be that we go forth for the last time. But do show them in, for we shall aid them." He nodded solemnly and the attendant turned, only to be stopped as the king added a further order.
"Oh, and see if you can sell them any of the 'I found the hidden city and all I got was this lousy T shirt' shirts." He said with mirth.
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