That explained why the apothecary owner had that weird look on his face when Frank asked if he had any Bright Sky Herb. He must be regretting missing out!

"Then I'm counting on you!" Frank told the shop hand.

"You're always welcome-I mean, surely I can get a tip from this, right?"

The shop hand smiled, shaking his head.

And with that, he whipped out his phone to make the call. "Good morning, Mr. Quaker... I'm Zangi. Yeah, we'd spoken over the phone before did you forget? I'm the shop hand from that apothecary!"

"Just cut to the chase!" Mr. Quaker snapped impatiently from the other end.

Zangi remained calm, even chuckling. "Right... So you have a Bright Sky Herb, right? We just happened

to have a customer who asked for it specifically. Could you perhaps make time to meet him?"

Mr. Quaker appeared skeptical. "Are you messing with me?"

be

a table for 8 PM at Tandem

then hung up and relayed Mr. Quaker's arrangement to Frank, who whipped

to business. Won't I have to pay you back if your

that Zangi was such an honest

that, since it at least proved he was not

standing restlessly by the door. "Damn that man," he muttered to himself. "Doesn't he have a sense of time? He said 8 PM, but he's still nowhere to

to come he wants to,

he was mediating this deal behind the apothecary

be terrible for him if Mr.

delayed-had

tunic suit

to the apothecary,

a seat, he asked, "May I ask why you want the Bright

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255