"Give me five," he says. He immediately goes to work on the tea while sipping wine from the bottle, and soon presents you with a steaming cup. He looks around for a wine glass, then just retrieves another teacup and pours his wine in there.
"What was I saying?" the Shadow Lord asks.
"Tomorrow afternoon…"
"Right, tomorrow, I'm going to investigate the barrow and see how close I can get to the actual caern. Contact me in the afternoon and I'll fill you in."
You exchange plans for a few more minutes, but when you finish your tea, Elton clearly wants you gone. But as you rise, the Shadow Lord says, "Hold on," and digs through a kitchen drawer. He tosses you an iPhone. "Here, keep this."
This will be perfect for my investigations. "Thank you."
"Please tell me this isn't your dead wife's iPhone."
Cool, free stuff. I'm not proud. "Does it still work?"
"I'll find a phone on my own." I don't want to be more beholden to a Shadow Lord than I already am.
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