The group returned to the streets of Port Nyanzaru and the oppressive heat. They travelled downhill toward the Harbour Ward, and back up toward the Merchant Ward. Here the streets were wide and crowded with palanquins, servants, and enormous long-necked beasts of burden, weighed down with crates and saddle-bags. Some carried ten or more people while comfortably stomping along.
They found the Weave of Life rug and tapestry shop, and Rodrigo was relieved to find that his Alliance contact was no simple weaver. The shop held a large workhouse with many hands weaving, hooking, and spinning while Klevin Van'Sharen greeted customers in a large, airy covered pavilion draped in a colourful assortment of his wares. It was a simple thing to find a spot amongst the beautiful hanging tapestries where one could have a private conversation, while Van'Sharen's many assistants ran about helping the shop's 'real' customers.
Klevin Van'Sharen bowed in the local style and offered the group a sweet, fruity beverage from a colourfully painted ceramic decanter. "I am glad you have arrived, I have put some agents on my... case, but I do not trust them to effectively pull it off. You see, the local group of thieves and smugglers (no relation the honest merchants of the Zentarim, of course) is bringing in some contraband by their usual route - some tunnels dubbed 'the Serpent's Coils' that connect the Tiryki Ancorage to the Harbour Ward under the city walls. The group I have hired plan to try to capture the contraband as it arrives by boat, but if you could venture into the coils, we are sure to get it before it disappears into the city."
