#anywhere

"OOooo..." he lifts the glass to his lips but doesn't drink, lowering it "And there was -one- tattoo of a cup of tea." he admits "So I heard."

"A cup of tea??"

"YES."

And itt's handed over

Malik leans hard in his chair "Thanks...." the cup makes it back to the table "What else did you hear?"

He takes another 'sip'. "Did you hear about the troll?"

"Or the new trod?"

"Wait, what nnew trod? " Clearly he did NOT

"Who is to say if a trod or rath is new or not?" the eshu falls into a storytelling mode "Only that they are new to us......" and he goes on.

During the telling he mentions several possible new stories involved in the disaster at the Duchy.

A sluagh assassin did it! A nocker collapsed the entire Duchy Seat! A group of Balor and Ailil nobles targeted the Duchy for REVENGE....

"Oh my.. oh but.. well, I really need to talk about dreamers..." the man says

The there's a loud WANG sound... and fading innto view is 'Foxy'

"Dreamers!!! OH ... didn't you hear???"

And the bogann falls on his face, out cold.

CC/Foxy holds up a skillet "YOu okay?"

"I was doing fine.... fine fine, let's go...."

"You were druggged" She huffs "So was I.. "

"Go...." he focuses, hustling them both out.

"Really, you got drugged. That's like me going off key" Low mutter

but she is ushereed

Malik is focused on getting both out of there.....

And they escape to a mile out