Book 3 Chapter 3: Jacopo is Uniquely Motivating
While Jayk took care of the cleanup, Dantes walked behind the meeting chamber and into his private chambers. The halls were simple, with a thick crimson rug in the center, and art along the walls that he’d favored, lots of windows for light, and plants growing both in those windows and inside them. He kept it elegant and simple, with a little help from his aunt and her girls. He moved past his bedroom, he didn’t like to sleep until the club closed for the night, and moved toward the study where he could hear Vera talking.
He pushed open the door. The study was sparse, he didn’t do a lot of reading so it was mostly supplies to write letters with, a small balcony that had a pigeon coop within it, and a fine desk and chair.
Vera was standing in the middle of it, talking to the large brown bat that hung from the corner.
“Jacopo, I swear I’ll get the broom and knock you down.”
“You haven’t held a broom in years, Auntie,” said Dantes as he approached them.
“Well, Jacopo is uniquely motivating.”
“What’s the problem?”
Jacopo shifted into a broad tall man wearing a simple shirt and pants. He was more than a head taller than Dantes, and handsome. That bothered Dantes, but just a little. Like Dantes, whatever blessing he’d received from the god of thieves that let him keep what he was wearing and holding as a man when he shifted forms affected Jacopo as well.
“I don’t see why I need to learn how to eat with these utensils. Hands, and teeth are all that’s needed.”