the wine of friendship

"Well, you still know it, right?" Adam pointed out, but Jigano was right that that hardly made it 'well known'. He took a quiet sip too, wondering where their white-haired friend had disappeared to. So many people simply died in Longnight or to mysterious beasts or Gods here; it was hard to know you would always greet a friend again. Caring for his clothes and hair was one of the few things Adam put regular and proper routine work into. "Yeah, I know. I got some polish from a guy in the market and I do it once a week and I clean the silver too - I do my other boots at the same time. Washing my shirts is a fucking pain, cos one of them has this special embroidery on I have to be really careful with at the tub or it'll all rip off." Still though, he always felt the rewards of his work when he got to put it on and see the intricate designs snaking up his collar, making him feel rather handsome indeed. As for Bastien and why he would ascend, Adam could only shrug. "I dunno. Personally, I'd never wanna do it. Especially if I was married to someone as hot as he is - they've got to be missing out on some things." He shook his head as if this were a great shame. "But I just like getting drunk and feeling things and eating food too much to go over. Sides, seems like a lot of work for just a lot of trouble." He said nothing more on the matter, picking up that Jigano seemed uncomfortable, though he wasn't sure why. He considered the Ascended as nothing more than an eccentric group of weirdos; sure, they got violent sometimes, but this was life. Who didn't? He was pleased to learn that Jigano was not of noble birth. It made it much easier for Adam to feel comfortable around him, even if he felt there was still an intellectual gap between them (one that he would never put voice to, for it was one of the few things that truly embarrassed him, his lack of book-learning). "Sounds cool. I never had that much of a direction either." As for unattended sums of money, he snorted. "I wish it had been that easy. The unattended bits of money I came across were usually bits of bar change. The richest I ever got was after I found this treasure in a mountain for a guy; he said I could keep whatever I wanted as long as I got him this one thing. Sold it all and made enough to buy a little house in the woods near my main...work...area." Roads that I would trawl for people to steal from just didn't have the same ring to it. "That's a really boring answer though, isn't it? Before that I got a lot of money from when I married my wife, though I had to be responsible with it cos she had control of it, really. We just bought a lot of drugs. I would have bought more but she stopped me - that was the responsible bit." He laughed, well aware of how silly it was. "...Have you? Ever had something stronger than liquor, I mean." A D A M Do you wanna dance? Do you wanna fight? Do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?