Road to Valhalla

Chapter 198: Old Friends in a Gloomy Place

"The gloomy days are over!", someone shouted into my ear, but before I could recover from the shock to turn around and find out who it was, he'd gone.

I found myself in a very packed inn in Montreuil. I rather liked the city but the tavern was chock full of fat, jobless, drunkards. Despite all the prosperity of the city, men always found reasons to be useless. But if not for these men, the very nice and hearty innkeeper would have been out of business. There was only one woman in the entirety of that huge tavern and that was the innkeeper's daughter.

She was no goddess but in that difficult, disgusting place, she was like sunshine. I ended up staying in that inn and although I never spoke that much with her, I liked seeing her work.

"'Nother?", she'd ask every time anyone finished their drink even if they were so drunk they could drop dead any second.

"Did you ask the lady for dinner, Natasha?", her father would ask very often.

"She's asleep", Natasha would reply.

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