The old scrap market square is about forty metres across, with a weighing shed on one side and a stall row on the other. Vell worked those bins for eleven months, and a notice naming him in a murder was pasted on the east wall.
Jia held the whole of that square for nineteen minutes before he arrived.
She did it with two Blackforge seconds and a form her mother built for a room with obstructions. A market square has stalls, posts, a weighing shed, plus a stone kerb, which is the nearest thing in Orison to a district hall.
The first four constructs came in from the north at the ninth hour. They arrived one at a time across four minutes, which is the only reason a single swordswoman and two seconds held a market quarter at all.
She fought them across a floor with obstructions on it, in the variation her mother built for exactly that ground. Nineteen minutes, four constructs, two seconds working the seams behind her, and not one stallholder touched.
