Today's #microPrompt hosted by @crtaxon is GRAVITY

The scene in my wip where it shows up is only 300 words long, so I pasted the whole thing here.

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Ralen’s hospital had large, open windows for the purposes of permitting air to flow into patient rooms. This also served the function of permitting Doka’lvar of the sinsos to see inside, even when they remained respectfully just off the grounds. The Interim Magistrate and his Lord Consort were said to be visiting, and the gravity of rumors had drawn half the sinsos to that hospital at the base of the xilcadis. It was incorporated into the roots of the world tree’s sturdiest offshoot. There was enough diameter for a most everyone to have an excellent view when a carriage finally arrived with their famous visitors.

“Will we know him when we see him?” wondered an onlooker aloud.

“The barkeep last Night said the Consort fell in love with dwarves. Esoramen even looks like one of the dwarves.” This came spitting from the lips of a dirty old mudraker, leaning hard on a cane. “He’s short and stout.”

Everyone close enough to hear laughed with disbelief at such an idea.

When the husband of the Interim Magistrate emerged from the carriage, the onlookers witnessed an ethereally pretty buck with open features and a quick smile. He was just as quick to dart up the stairs into the hospital, vanishing through the doors to become one more shadowy figure through the windows.

Nobody was entirely sure they had seen Lord Esoramen until he was followed at a more leisurely pace by the recognizable silhouette of Lord Corvinde, Marked by Tosvodos as he was. The Interim Magistrate wore somber colors and offered only the gravest nods of acknowledgment to the crowd.
Everyone was quiet for a time after those two disappeared into the hospital.

“Well,” said the old mudraker, spitting onto the street and lumbering away without another word.

Where a hundred rumors were silenced, a hundred new ones grew.

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