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Thieves World 7 – The Dead of Winter by Asprin, Robert

the two. He glanced around, raised a hand, and both looked and pointed to his

left. He saw the man and the hooded and veiled woman look at the table he

indicated, at the wall; saw the man look questioningly at her. The hood nodded.

Perhaps she said something. Without uncloaking, they descended the step and

moved to the table Ahdio indicated.

She was in charge, Ahdio noted immediately. The man was her servant or

bodyguard, then. He caught Throde’s eye, indicated a table of empty cups, and

headed for the new arrivals.

“Welcome to Sly’s Place, my lady; sir. I am Ahdio and, yes, this is a real

chain-coat. What would you like?”

“Your best wine for milady; your better beer for me,” Wints said.

Ahdio knew that she had told her escort what to order; he was not to be

privileged to hear her voice in addition to seeing no glimpse of her face, then.

The point was, what in the name of the Shadowy One was she doing here? While her

retention of her hooded cloak along with the veil attracted attention just

because others wondered what she was hiding, he hoped she kept both in place.

Just the presence of a woman of quality here in Sly’s was enough to touch off

trouble from some of these jackasses. If she happened to be well-favored behind

the veil, and shapely within her doubtless expensive and fashionable attire, he

might well need Sweetboy’s aid!

Ouleh jiggled over while he poured qualis into a nice cup and was about to turn

to Maeder’s Better True Brew, which Maeder identified with a blue MB on the

barrel. She leaned across the bar to give Ahdio a high-eyebrowed look.

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