On the Street
The guard listens with increasing confusion evident on his face as Alnar and Jezebel attempt to talk him into abandoning his post to go to a tavern. "But what about the ritual?" the young man asks.
"This fella here just said if'n we make a ring of steel we can hold the oni off," he says, pointing at Ferris.
He is nonetheless obviously worried about the prospect of a man-eating demon bursting through the door at any moment. "Still, I don't wanna stand about and hope for some magic tricks to protect me, but my uncle'll be awful mad if I go off to a tavern and leave some monster to wreck the office..."
At this point the watchman hears a low snarl emanate from the office, as Garry expresses his frustration with Verloc. "Maybe I better go call a Watchman. Don't want to go up there and ring that bell. That thing sounds hungry..."