The Plan And The Trap

— Hic!

A startled maid hiccupped. The remark had come as a shock. Shock enough that even the paladins, who had been keeping their places at the banquet like cats in another man’s house, were busy stealing looks at one another.

“…”

The Inquisitor’s caterpillar eyebrows squirmed. He seized his napkin in his fist and rose, one of the rare men who stood taller than Keith.

“What was that you just said?”

“I have no wish to say the same thing twice.”

“Hah.”

Flabbergasted, Kashen flared his nostrils. Pai, watching it happen, would have named the feeling… what was the...