Four
A Difficult Discussion
You can't actually be considering this,” Hack said between swallows of ale. “A Gold Dragon? Are you kidding me?”
Kalum, Blemm, and Hack had bid farewell to Baron Rothburn and made their way up to the tavern to discuss the offer over a round of beer. The place had emptied quite a bit since earlier when Kalum had come in. Several tired-looking men still sat at the bar, and a number of what Kalum suspected were regulars, sat at tables in various stages of inebriation. A fellow not far from them was face-down drunk, sleeping off whatever he’d consumed. The large screen now displayed a scene that was familiar to any adventurer—a moonlit clearing within a dense and majestic forest. A crackling campfire burned in the middle of the expanse.
Kalum took a vast drink o
