Pendant Associates

Working in the Rathskeller was sometimes boring. As work was wont to be, Bastien reminded himself; life was no longer the easy stride of art and culture it had been for him in Venice, hard work behind him as he had clawed his way up to a position of relative power. Here there was always dishes to clean and drinks to pour and often no good conversation to be had. This was such an evening, where the minutes seemed to be hours long each. Edy wasn't here to provide him with any kind of entertainment, and he wasn't sure where Vervain was. There was just a few boring quiet customers at the bar and that was all. He looked up as a man entered, was about to disregard him and look back at his cups when he noticed something. Around his neck, shining like a beacon to Bastien, was a blue pendant similar to the one on his own chest. Immediately he felt a rush of several different things: jealously, confusion, kinship. He needed to at least find out if it was just a coincidence or if Safrin really had given someone else a pendant as well. Waiting a while until the man approached the bar (he didn't want to jump on him as soon as he came in the door, as tempting as it was) Bastien eagerly looked up as he did. "Friend! What will you be having? And ah...may I compliment your taste in necklaces..?" He did not gesture to his own but hardly needed to, his deep-necked shirt openly showing the pendant on his own chest. Ronin Bastien I am the remedy to your heart