14 The street was narrow with most of the buildings being houses of two floors. The buildings were small, hardly more than twenty feet wide and that tall. Laundry hung from tiny window to opposite window and blanketed the sky in blankets and wet clothes. A few bits of trash littered the otherwise clean but wet cobblestone ground. I looked down the unprepossessing street with its tight quarters and peeling whitewash walls and wrinkled my nose. "This is-um, nice." Tillit winked at me and took a step toward the narrow street. "Don't judge too quickly. Just follow Tillit." We followed the bemused sus one at a time down the by-street. Helle walked behind me. I glanced over my shoulder and noticed that Spiros followed her. He studied her with an attention bordering on rude if there