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?"

sir? I may be nobody important,

I'm making a reservation for a table for 8 PM at Tandem

and relayed Mr. Quaker's arrangement to Frank, who whipped out his phone. "Thanks

I have to pay you back if your meeting with Mr. Quaker falls through? And you look like an honest man who

surprised that Zangi was

fine with that, since it at least proved he

they both waited that same evening at Tandem Hotel, Zangi was standing restlessly by the door. "Damn that man," he muttered to

the other hand, Frank was sipping tea calmly. "He's going to come he wants to,

he was mediating this deal behind the apothecary owner's

fine if everything went smoothly, though it would be terrible for him if Mr. Quaker complained to the apothecary owner and went for his

sorry I'm late! I was delayed-had

a middle-aged man in a tunic suit arrived with

Mr. Quaker was an important customer to the apothecary, and he still needed the deal with Frank

"May I ask why you want

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