Chapter 43: Have It Your Way (1)
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Be it a minute or two later the owner of the establishment, a rather angry woman in her fifties entered the room, just to see her apprentice Mathew sitting there dejected. “What’s with all this ruckus? I could hear you two shouting from upstairs!”
“Aunt Ann… I think I lost my only friend just now…” Mathew said as he placed back down the dirty glass he was holding.
Ann Ebsteen, also known as ‘Night Lilly’ was a rather popular Conartist in her earlier days. A master seductress, a skilled musician, an intelligent writer, teacher, and experienced swindler by all accords... She was one of a kind at her time and after she retired, or even a time before that she had made it her mission to help those unfortunate enough to need to learn her craft. Children
