The Last Survivors Boxed Set: Books 1-3: A Dystopian Society in a Post-Apocalyptic World by Bobby Adair & T.W. Piperbrook

Author:Bobby Adair & T.W. Piperbrook [Adair, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ancient City Publishing
Published: 2017-07-06T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32: Beck

With two of his brawniest young scholars to accompany him through the darkness on Tiffany’s Row, Beck carried three of Ivory’s books, double-wrapped in sheepskin. Where Tiffany’s Row got its name, he had little idea, but the grandmothers told a tale of a princess named Tiffany, who had so many jewels and other fineries that she sold them just to make room in her vast house. To Beck, it was the street where all the wealthy merchants sold their wares. Unlike the market where the farmers, birders, and hunters sold their products from temporary stalls erected on the day when they had something to sell, the merchants on Tiffany’s Row had permanent shops.

Kreuz’s smoked meat market commanded one of the largest spaces on Tiffany’s Row, at a corner with double doors opening onto the intersection. If that wasn’t opulent enough, each of the doors had set in it three glass panes. Three! It was the talk of the town when old Kreuz had them installed eleven years ago. How much he paid for the matching set of six pieces of ancient glass, he never told. People often speculated as to how deep old Kreuz’s pockets went as they paid for the smoked meats with his addictive blend of spices, like nothing else in any of the three towns.

It was rumored that Kreuz kept two of his sons on a secret farm in the forest, growing special spice plants that had been husbanded through a dozen generations since the time of the Ancients. Two more of his sons kept the fires smoldering in a smokehouse out on the southern edge of Brighton. There, they purchased wood from a family of woodcutters who chopped only certain types of trees, and in special proportions. Old Man Kreuz held many secrets for the preparation of his meats, secrets that made the meat so delicious and tender that no other smoked meat market existed in Brighton, though it was the largest of the three towns. The other two towns had five such markets between them, but nothing coming close to the flavor of a Kreuz smoked meat.

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