บท 243: Servant of the Axe - Tomb That is Not a Tomb

Chapter Type: Character Interaction (with others)

The bureaucrat moved us through hidden ways, through storerooms filled with forgotten clothes, through an armory (whose weapon racks were secured with iron bars and heavy padlocks, and were secured to the floor with iron chains run through metal loops that were worked into the masonry), all to end at a tower, by whose door was –

"Lady Mei!  Such an unusual surprise." I said.  "I would not have expected you to be curator of the admiral's trophy room."

"Curator?" she asked, her eyes falling on our bureaucrat, "Xu Xun, what lies have you been telling these foreigners?"

He said something in a rapid voice, something that rhymed and sounded like it might have been a song.  At that time, he also turned and waved us all three farewell.

She snorted.  "Well, we are wasting time.  I have heard, ambassador, that you are leaving tomorrow?"