Brotherhood Bar-Talks

[Lucend]

"Actually ... I'm having an eye-piece being imported from Kusari. This plate isn't going to be here for long, I assure you. And this new one is going to be special, thermal imaging and built in micro-computer. Amazing really."

Juan noted Theresa's entrance and exit. Reading the message, Lucendez closed his pad and looked at his friends.

"Something has happened. Sorry I can't discuss it, but I've got some Elder work to do." Juan kissed Magia and paid for Custo's drink. He headed outside and towards his private residences to pick something up.

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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