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Dumb
As they moved off with the leave of the plant, no security force ambushed them, nor did any security offciers suddenly jump their backs, it seems, picking flowers wasn´t a cardinal sin on the Embassy.
After a while of walking west, notably roughly around the same time it took them to the fountain, they found another mid sized plaza, this one with a large black obelisk in the middle, it was around...
...maybe 10 metres high?
...and it´s slender figure cast a shadow on one end of the plaza in the afternoon sun.
There... were no inscriptions, or anything that described what the thing was actually here for, so it was likely just an art monument, maybe some sort of gift from one of the factions represented on the embassy...
After searching for a while, given teh size fo the plaza, they could make out a number of possibly out of the ordinary people that could be who they were searching for, there was a group of slender humanoids, almost one and a half times the height of Gillian but only two thirds his width, standing in the shadow of the obelisk and talking to each other, the only other notable group were two humans arguing with each other on the opposite end of the plaza...
Fort_Master_Gustav
Initially the man did not seem to react, he was, at least seemingly, human, his clothes stuck to his body due to the sweat and he reeked of alcohol and sweat as he was snoring in the afternoon sun.
Although he made the impression of a drunkard sleeping under a bridge, his clothes, ornate flowing robes in gold and red which now admittedly didn´t look all that tidy or dignified anymore, suggested he was some sort of diplomat or representative, likely of one of the many human colonies or sub states in independent space...
However, he had apparently actually taken notice of them, despite all odds...
He made a long and deep groaning sound, scratched his backside rather nonchalantly, stretched some of his limbs, yawned and then stood up to talk to the replicant... well, at least partially.
Instead of lying on the bench in a fetal position completely he now had his legs stretched out and was lying on his side, with his head leaned on his fist, the elbow resting on the bench.
For a couple of moments he just looked into the afternoon sun and then at the replicant.
"Aye, watcha want? What time is it?"