Brotherhood Bar-Talks

[Lucend]

"Custo!" Lucendez walked up to the bar after having his conversation with Sephardi.

"So! I see you've met Isa huh?" Upon hearing his voice, Magia jumped up and gave him a hug. She noticed the big metal plate and started to worry.

"Hon, don't. I'm having it replaced..." Said Juan, referring to his eye as though it were a piece of hull plating that was defective. "Besides, you don't hear from me in a day and your at a bar? Shouldn't you be, I don't know ... mourning?" He bore his good eye down on her.

"And to answer your question, I believe that's Cretan Spiced Rum, or something." Lucendez dipped his finger into the rum and tasted it, confirming his suspicions.

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"The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire. It was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground.
Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there."

Osaika Moto, the Fall and Rise of a Kusari Farmer

Juan Lucendez, √ Corsair