A Drink Before We Die: a Low Town Short
“True, a few fingers of liquor, or even a wide-stretched palm, impairs your ability to cope with the world's troubles, miseries and horrors; but it also makes you less concerned about this failure, and since the world is certain to throw more at you than you can handle regardless, I think it a more than equitable transaction.
People call me the Warden. People call me a lot of things, but the Warden is the only one you could say inside a church.
The Staggering Earl was just shy of empty. ...Most of the rest of Rigus has better sense than me, at least in terms of the appropriate time to imbibe alcohol. I'd have noticed him even in a crowd, though. He was too clean, and he moved with a purpose that most of our clientele, hardened inebriates and bitter old sots, rarely muster. When I'd been coming up, when the first waves of Tarasaighn were arriving from their marshy homeland and making trouble for the entrenched interests, the Swamp Dwellers had seemed all but another species.MoreLess
People call me the Warden. People call me a lot of things, but the Warden is the only one you could say inside a church.
The Staggering Earl was just shy of empty. ...Most of the rest of Rigus has better sense than me, at least in terms of the appropriate time to imbibe alcohol. I'd have noticed him even in a crowd, though. He was too clean, and he moved with a purpose that most of our clientele, hardened inebriates and bitter old sots, rarely muster. When I'd been coming up, when the first waves of Tarasaighn were arriving from their marshy homeland and making trouble for the entrenched interests, the Swamp Dwellers had seemed all but another species.MoreLess
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