CHAPTER 2.4.4

"Um, I'm your boss, and I'm pretty much in charge of this hell hole. Is she your mother, by the way, in the painting? She has your eyes. Or maybe you have hers, either way, she is really pretty"

"Please show yourself out of my quarters!" she said, enraged by the intruder.

"Well, that's no way to treat a guest," Albert said as he stood from his chair and reached for his lance, which was cradled by the little room's door frame.

"I came to talk about new terms, a plan, you know, commerce between a lieutenant and his state guard."

"Albert, I have no business with you."

"... Oh, I'm sure you do. You will understand right after I tell you what I came to tell you"

Lora sensed something nefarious was brewing, and she was unwittingly a part of it.

"Recently... no, wait, let me be more specific. I received a visit from the captain himself the other day "he exclaimed, chuckling

"Don't you have anything more important to do than come here and play make-believe?"

Albert was unconcerned