IIIThe Residential District was the official name given to a large portion of the city of Renna. It wasn't the prettiest part at all, nor the most mathematically correct; There were six labeled neighborhoods in all of Renna, so clearly, whoever the architect hired to count the neighborhoods for him guaranteed a refund. Among the residential neighborhood's unofficial nicknames was "The Warrens," which seemed to perfectly sum up both the sector and its residents. Like dirty little rodents, they seemed to be scavenging the streets without much attention to hygiene. Parts of the residential neighborhood were veritable suburbs of the city centre, but for the most part they were home to the working class, the unemployed and criminals, and much of it gave off a particularly suffocating odor thanks to the unsealed main entrance of the Underworks lay just beneath its surface. The residential neighborhood was also where, when it came to employment, Eldridge Carter found himself going most often of all the city's neighborhoods. Once you got used to the smell, the pickpockets, the street urchins, the occasional street mugging, the working girls – who ranged from dirty to disfigured – and the “business propositions” that certain individuals approached you with without scruples, the conclusion to be drawn was that he had character. Learn to survive on the streets and you will learn to love them. Most of his targets felt the uncontrollable urge to hide in plain sight. Most of them also had the need to drink to dispel their problems after any revelation of their true nature. And it was precisely for this reason, deep in the slums and shacks of the residential neighborhood, among the dirtiest and worst of Renna, that... middle of paper... could be an attack dog", says the Duke The son stood and sighed, opening his leather duster and fully exposing both the shoulder holsters of his weapons and the row upon row of derringers laboriously positioned in their half-holsters around his waist. They had given up the pretense that none of the two were particularly dangerous. Eldridge finished the sentence abruptly, frowning, his face hardening and his cold gaze boring into Gruber's grimy features. But at least I'll live to see the morning solitary glimpse of a second in which everything stopped, everything stopped, and the atmosphere was almost dominated by the cold mirage of non-violence; it was a calm before the storm, a fraction of a second of silence, and as soon as one of parts recognized its presence, fleetingly, it vanished and the inn exploded..