1)
“Are these drinks…” Chantratha is peering at bottles, behind the bar. “…safe?”
Wolf shrugs. “I didn’t hear of any jailers falling sickly.”
“RIGHT, then!” And the King of Neverune is clawing through bottles like a parched man.#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020
2)
“Corkscrew, corkscrew…”
Chantratha sighs, plucks a bottle out of the nearest royal hand without ceremony, and applies a corkscrew to it.
Palonder is examining a slate on the wall. A chalked cellars-ledger. 3)
“A Hook In The Throat?”
“A mixed drink,” Wolf explains. “Popular among the lowest orders.”
“MIXED drink? Like we serve at Castle fancy-feasts? For JAILERS? In a remote rural keep?” Chantratha is aghast. “THIS is ‘efficiency’?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020
4)
Wolf shrugs. “Mixed as in: you mix the cheapest ale with equal parts wine vinegar and water, then add hot pepper juice to make it less disgusting…and you have A Hook In The Throat.” 5)
Chant shudders. “And what do you have in your gut? Or coming out your nether end?”
“Not discussed in polite society,” Palonder guesses.
{snort} “We’re COURTIERS.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020
