You go down the alley. It's only about a two-foot wide space between the tavern and the adjacent building. It leads to a wider alley that runs parallel with the main streets, behind the backs of all the buildings on this block.
You look each way and don't see any sign of them, directly. There are other narrow alleys leading off of this, back onto the tavern's street, or to the street on the other side of the block. There are some random things tossed back here, most of it trash or crates. It could afford some hiding places, but your gut tells you they would have likely ran rather than sticking along so close to the tavern. Some of the crates could be climbed to get to the roofs.
You get the feeling they're less than 30 seconds ahead of you, whichever way they went.
You look each way and don't see any sign of them, directly. There are other narrow alleys leading off of this, back onto the tavern's street, or to the street on the other side of the block. There are some random things tossed back here, most of it trash or crates. It could afford some hiding places, but your gut tells you they would have likely ran rather than sticking along so close to the tavern. Some of the crates could be climbed to get to the roofs.
You get the feeling they're less than 30 seconds ahead of you, whichever way they went.
