[City Location] Seidaku's Cottage

[Seidaku]

To most of Alvadas' inhabitants, its resident included, Seidaku's cottage is just another building in the city, larger than some, smaller than most. In keeping with its location within the Barrier around the city, the exterior details shift slightly with the passage of time, and only Seidaku's long experience with Alvedas allows him to find his way home after leaving.

For the most part, the building's facade is generally run down and more than a little unkempt. The white wash has faded in brightness to a muted gray, and has begun to chip in some places. Normally, there is only one small window, which leaves the interior of the building shrouded in a perpetual gloom, even at the brightest parts of the day. Once or twice, he had come home to a cottage fronted almost entirely in windows, and once to a plain brick wall with no windows at all. Minor details of the house changed on the whim of the city. Sometimes his door was red, other times green, or blue, and once it was a screen of beads for longer than a day. Sometimes, his home had a delicate trim around the door and window, others they were portals flush to the wall. The walls themselves were normally white washed wood, but occasionally flowed into stone, brick, or clay.

The interior though, was as fixed as the exterior was mutable. The smooth wooden floor was covered with a thin pall of dust that Seidaku always intended to get around to cleaning tomorrow. On the left hand side of the single room was a small bed, flush against the wall and directly oposite the hearth. On the far wall was his "study", a beaten and worn table and chair, with a small chest sitting immediately to the side. Crumpled papers and splintered quills littered the floor around the desk.

Above the hearth, in a position of almost reverence, sits Seidaku's most prized possession. His single copy of "Dreams of Oblivion". The book and its immediate surroundings are kept in immaculate condition, free from any dust and grime.