The Girl Who Dreamed of a Different World by Niall Teasdale

Author:Niall Teasdale [Teasdale, Niall]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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They were back in the Sword and Staff, evening meal taken care of and mugs of ale on the table. Constance did not have excellent news. ‘Nothing we can really handle on the board, so it’s mundane work until something comes up.’

Rain shrugged. ‘I figured that would be the case.’

‘Well, Kana and I will be making scrolls,’ Aneshti said. ‘We checked with Letina in the magic shop. We can both make things they’re short on at the moment.’

‘Sounds good,’ Constance said.

‘You never said what you and Mimi do,’ Kana said.

‘Oh, I usually make potions,’ Mimi said. ‘Go out and gather the ingredients and then cook them up for sale in the magic shop.

Healing always goes down well, and you’d be amazed at how many people need a sleeping draught to get a good night’s rest. In spring, I spend a lot of time blessing crops, and I can often get work on the local farms if some disease has got into their plants. I do okay.’

‘I… do what I can,’ Constance said. ‘People don’t like necromancers, but when they have trouble with spirits, they’ll hire me to deal with the problem. I’ll live off the proceeds from Dvartim for a while and then, if nothing else comes up, I’ll fall back on the same thing attractive women have been doing since the beginning of time.’

‘You mean you–’ Kana started to ask.

‘Sell my body. It’s terrible. I know.’

‘It’s pretty bad that you have to do that to make food and rent.’

Constance gave a shrug. ‘I like sex. Always have. It’s not too much of a chore. Really.’

Kana was not convinced. ‘I doubt the men who have to pay for it are that good at it.’

‘She’s got you there, Constance,’ Mimi said.

‘Yeah,’ Constance admitted. ‘That is where my argument tends to flounder… Never mind. I’ve enough gold to keep going without resorting to that for quite a while. At least a couple of months.

Who’s up for another round?’

Kana considered this question carefully. The ale in the pub was far stronger than the light ale she was used to from the White Castle. There was significant danger of getting really drunk if she kept going. Equally, she had never really been drunk, so…

‘Why not?’ she said. ‘Bring on the booze.’

~~~

‘I’m drunk,’ Kana observed happily.

‘No kidding,’ Aneshti replied from under Kana’s armpit. It was, in many ways, preferable that Aneshti was half-carrying Kana because she was the shorter of the two.

‘Not as drunk as Constance.’

‘Uh, no.’ The drinking had come to an end after about three hours when Rain had had to help Constance outside to empty her stomach.

Mimi had finished her drink and staggered after them. Kana and Aneshti were maybe five minutes behind them. Rain and Aneshti were the only ones with a modicum of sobriety about them, but sober they were not. ‘I’m on the tipsy side, you’re drunk, and Constance is falling-over drunk.’

Kana giggled. ‘I’m going to be miserable in the morning, aren’t I?’

‘There’s a distinct possibility.’

‘Well, I’ve never had a hangover before.

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