"What happened?"
Shard asked curiously, then noticed the noise coming from outside the window.
He stuck his head out of the carriage window and discovered that the entrance to Stonemason Street was blocked by two horse-less four-wheeled carriages placed sideways, with sandbags and stones on their sides to fill the gaps.
At this time, Stonemason Street was even busier than usual. Besides onlookers, stonemasons with large and small hammers seemed to have taken to the street. Although the police were desperately maintaining order, they still couldn't stop the blacksmiths, who had divided into two groups, from hurling insults at each other with the most vicious language.
Even though Shard was only at the street entrance, he could still see, upon jumping off the carriage, that smoke was rising from the best building on the street where the Stonemason Guild was located; someone must have set fire there just now.
"What's going on here?"
