AUTHOR: Shrimp
CHALLENGE: wedding cake. flavor of the day. pocky.
WORD COUNT: 100
RATING: PG
NOTES: vicinage, noun; 1. The region near or about a place; vicinity. 2. A particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it. 3. Proximity.
“Holy… that building is huge,” Addison marveled, tilting his head back to try to spy the top of the cylindrical building.
“Not from the inside,” Bliss commented as she ran a hand along the rough brick beside the iron door. Addison winced. He had forgotten that this was nothing more than a place to hold slaves who either hadn’t been sold yet or worked within the city limits and whose owners didn’t have space for them. “When I was little I couldn’t figure out what we were keeping out. I didn’t realize until later that they were keeping us in.”