Chapter 02: Cities and Signs 03

In that city still stands the dwarf signpost which describes the transaction. For that money will make certain additional changes to your accommodation, and ought to assure that the walls are built of fresh stone.

In those times the places around were not littered with every kind of evidence, and the signs you saw told you not of what was seen by those who had seen it, but of what was now and ought to be.

So the pig stayed in the pigpen which nobody else wanted. Your name in the village was written in runes which no one else could understand, and the contents of your purse and the descriptions of your house were indications of what was being done and what was being hidden.

In those times people may have gone far from their villages to buy provisions and bring them home, without thinking of signs at all. Of course, they paid for things at least and possibly buried their purchases in deep holes, which the signs say cannot be opened.