Bolus lowered his voice, after glancing left and right. If his brother caught him divulging a secret to a stranger, he would be skinned alive.
Even though work had made his brother unavailable to reprimand him, he still feared him, knowing how ruthless he could be, when pushed too far.
As for Jerouch, all he needed was to play along till the moment he left him… again, he was also trying to drag the conversation long for a reason.
Being someone with low battle prowess, he usually preferred to walk around the city with his guards.
Today, though, because of the degrading act that he wanted to do, he had shooed the guy off, leaving them in a tavern that was a bit far from the outer quarter of the city.
However, he knew his guard, the moment he took long more than the usual time, they would start looking for him, and one advantage of beast tamers was that their beasts could do their biddings without them having to be present.
