The Old City

[singindemonhq]

Firewalled against those who mean harm.
See the words, obey the charm.

One of the things we'd come to London to do was to hunt. We could be going back to Sunnydale to fight a kind of war, and I needed my mojo as strong as I could make it.

Erynne hadn't seen London before - in theory, there wasn't any reason that we couldn't do the gig and sightsee at the same time. In practice, though, people looking over St Martin in the Fields or Big Ben don't tend to have strong, basic emotional reactions.

One thing that kept on surprising Erynne is that London is small. I mean the City of London. The part the Romans conquerors called Londinium, back around the time that Herod ruled in Jerusalem.

It's changed a lot since then, though. It changes all the time. A few centuries back they used to have these beamed houses where the top stories were built bulging out over the street. No plumbing. They used to just tip it out of the upper windows - often onto people passing underneath.

There was a lot of rage back then - a lot of plague, too. I remember a gig there right before the Great Fire of London cleaned the Black Death from the City.