Chapter 24: A drink and a show
There was an odiously loud chatter among the guests that sat in a roadside tavern.
The clicking of glasses, slamming of mugs against the table and drunken blabbing filled the establishment.
The bartender, a middle aged Ork, watched his guests with a smile. Today had been quite a profitable day, the power games were bringing in even more business than he had expected.
Click!
He placed a glass he had finished cleaning on the table and picked up another one to clean when someone slid onto the stool in front of him.
It was an old man with long white hair, a bushy beard and cracked eyelids. The man had been so quiet that he had not even noticed him at first.
The old man looked at the bartender’s chest where his tag was located before speaking. "Lashley, rum please... with ice."
Lashley gave the man a nod and skillfully picked up a glass cup with his left hand.
Tossing the glass to his right hand, Lashley rotated the cup in his fingers while his left hand moved over to the ice bucket.
Click!
Flicking a hexagonal ice cube into the glass cup, he finally settled it down and reached for the bottle of rum with the name "UndeadCaptain" written on its bottle.