3/27/2023 0 Comments Lost caves curious tavern![]() With Wax gettin’ all fancy and MeLaan being gone for months at a time. When Greg came to visit the foreign city for diplomacy talks with their council, he never expected a tavern entertainer would be the one to see beneath his surface. “More like sixteen if you take account of my spry youthful physique.” “Rustin’ knew it, you know? She’s like, what, a thousand years old?” “I’m sorry, Wayne,” Marasi said, tucking the map under her arm and resting her hand on his shoulder. “But I think in this case Jammi was wrong. “She said MeLaan wanted me to try harder in the relationship,” Wayne said. Gets to charge four times what anyone else does! Ill repute indeed.” “I’m gonna tell Jammi you said that, Marasi. Of all the whores on the block, she gives the best-” “Who’s been saying that? Jammi has agreatrepu- tation. “I asked Jammi Walls what she thought I should do- You know her? She’s at the tavern most nights.” “You have had some interesting relationships.” “Throw something at his head,” Wayne said. ’S not the proper way to break up with a fellow.” “But it ain’t right, how slow it’s goin’. “I think she’s got a new job from the big guy,” Wayne said. “On account of her tellin’ me, ‘Wayne, I’m probably going to break up with you in a few weeks.’” “What makes you think she’s going to do that?” “That’s why maybe I’ve been uncharacteristically downbeat in my general disposition as of late.” “I think MeLaan is going to break up with me,” Wayne said softly. She consulted the map, marked with the construction notes-and older annotations indicating a nearby oddity that the sewer builders had found years ago, but which had never been properly investigated. As if they had a hidden entrance into an unknown, unseen lair. And it was the same region where a local group of gang enforcers kept vanishing and reappearing. This area underneath the city of Elendel was peppered with ancient caves. He didn’t want to blast the next section, as seismic readings indicated they were near an unmapped cavern. Construction on the citywide underground train tunnels was ongoing, and two days agoa demolitions man had filed a curious report. Wayne was an official constable, not some barely-within-the-law deputized citizen. They’dbeen working together for almost six years now, since Wax’s retirement following the discovery of the Bands of Mourning. ![]()
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