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Cas left Temptations Casino and Hotel with Alcina Massio’s parting words running around his mind - he would not be able to leave Dormero Station until he and her father had come to an arrangement regarding the debt he had inherited. Massio had already used his influence with the station’s authorities to ensure he would be stopped if he attempted to leave.
“A pitcher of Karnak and a double, no, you’d best make it a treble Freis,” he said to Kyne when his feet had carried him, without him being aware of where he was going, to The Razor’s Edge. After what his day had brought, getting drunk seemed like a very good idea, even though he needed to think, and beer and liquor were likely to make that difficult.
“You sound like your brother,” Kyne remarked as he set the pitcher under the tap a
