the wine of friendship

"Yeeeaahhh, sorry I kind of...uh...left. What was on the other side of the portal wasn't even worth seeing, honestly. Just cold and there was some dickhead who was Loren's long lost brother or something?" Adam shrugged and shook his head, having no real patience for the various weird twists and turns of the Launceleyn family tale. "I hope next time we get to find some new mystical place, its a hot beach or something." It was comforting, in a way, to hear Jigano speak fondly of his friends with the same lack of reading skill as Adam. In his home it had always been a thing of shame, something he had hidden deeply. Though it seemed Jigano did not have much experience of brothels (or at least not the seedy ones Adam had come from). "Well. If you're the owner, you wanna be able to read the books, but it's great if your staff or whoever lives with them can't. Then they don't know to correct you when you start fucking up the numbers to stiff them." He took a long drink then smiled, looking to the fire and letting his mind wander. "Y'know, when I started working there when I was old enough...you'd be surprised how many people go to them cos they're just really fucking lonely and want someone to hang out with. I learnt more about the world in those bedrooms than any of the nobles did with their tutors or whatever." A D A M Do you wanna dance? Do you wanna fight? Do you wanna get drunk and stay the night?