"I'm here to see my client Valrym." I was spiffed up, nice suit, styled my beard, even took two seperate baths!
"Name?" The clerk sitting behind the desk was short, wore a bear of thick spectacles and sounded bored as all get out, behind him were a bunch of ugly burly guards, and behind them a row of cells filled with the waste products of society.
"Trezlan Lorentino Esquire, the third!" The third I thought was the best touch.
"The third normally comes before the esquire."
"Nonesense, clearly you sir are no esquire." What does esquire mean? Who cares! The clerk shook his head, made a not in his book and then pointed to a guard who took me back to a lone cell in it sat the most depressed Valrym I've ever seen. Clearly his prison stay had taken a toll on him, I mean it had been a few days but you couldn't tell that from his clothes and general look, he looked like he'd been there for years.
"Of course it would be you." It was not my favorite way of being greeted, but it is the normal way.
"Valrym I'm here to get you out of your legal trouble, trust me we can beat this."
"Trezlan even ignoring you are terrible at anything legal considering how many years you've spent in prison, I'm not in legal trouble, they know what I am, and they want to destroy me." That did not occur to me that the Guard would simply want to remove Valrym instead of just lock him up.
"Well that certainly will not do Valrym, I need you, your tavern is one of the few places I'm not thrown out of on sight."
"You know what, fine, help me Trezlan, you literally can not make this any worse." And so I left to try and solve this whole issue myself! I returned a few hours later shackled up.
"Now I'm to be destroyed as well." I admit this was not completely an unforseen consequence.
"Well at least you found a way to make this worse for me Trezlan congratulations." Honestly Valrym is such a drama queen! I mean I didn't make the situation worse myself, that would come later, completely seperate from what I'd done!
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