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− | I alighted from the cab and wobbled on my feet but managed to stay on them. We were | + | I alighted from the cab and wobbled on my feet but managed to stay on them. We were momentarily met by an ogre much like the one I fought earlier that evening, bruises from which I was certain were fairly purpling apace. Unlike the ogre from earlier that evening, this one was dressed in what I would later come to know as the official uniform of the Bow Street Runners, akin to the Metropolitan Police save for the scarlet cape of the Runners which covered the ogre’s decidedly broad shoulders. However, at the time I saw only what my knowledge allowed me to see—a policeman’s uniform—and a representative of the authority that had ordered me to this place.<br><br> |
He escorted us inside. We complied. He took me aside once we were safely indoors and looked at me, eyeing the blood from my scalp wound dripping somewhat liberally from my head. My tattered dress was fairly soaked with it. His expression crinkled and he spoke with gruff sympathy. His voice was a little odd to my ear, being not much tinged with Britain’s distinctive accent but he was perfectly intelligible despite. <br><br> | He escorted us inside. We complied. He took me aside once we were safely indoors and looked at me, eyeing the blood from my scalp wound dripping somewhat liberally from my head. My tattered dress was fairly soaked with it. His expression crinkled and he spoke with gruff sympathy. His voice was a little odd to my ear, being not much tinged with Britain’s distinctive accent but he was perfectly intelligible despite. <br><br> |