“The scent of roasting coffee and baking cakes filled the air, and the soft murmur of conversation reached Ark’s ears.“I do not see the others,” said Muravin.“They won’t be on the main floor,” said Ark. “Too public.” Most of Malarae knew the House of Kularus as Malarae’s only coffee house, owned by Anton Kularus, a Szaldic mercenary formerly in Lord Titus’s employ. Kularus had helped save the Sages of Catekharon and Lord Titus’s embassy from Mihaela’s mad plot, and in exchange, the Sages had rewarded Kularus with a supply of coffee beans. Kularus had used the beans to found Malarae’s only coffee house, and had quickly become a wealthy and respected man. Ark knew the real story.“Anton Kularus” was only the alias used by Corvalis Aberon, the former Kindred assassin Caina had taken as a lover. Caina had defeated Mihaela in Catekharon, and had asked for the coffee beans and the freedom of one slave as a reward. With those beans, she had started the House of Kularus, using Corvalis as a pub...lic face…and the nobility and merchants of Malarae gathered in the coffee house to drink and scheme, as they did in Anshan and Istarinmul.And as they did, the Ghosts were there to listen.The slave Caina had freed in Catekharon hurried over.MoreLessShow More Show Less
Jonathan Moeller - the Ghosts 09 - Ghost in the Surge
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