Chapter One-Hundred-and-Sixty-Six

Although they had a bone to pick with Gillian, they avoided his tavern as they hurried through the Wine district. Adam was fairly sure that the proprietor was connected to the one that the laboratory bloodfiend had called the Maestro, so getting embroiled in that now might lead them down a rabbit hole they didn’t have time for.

The others slowed down when they reached the large bridge from the Wine district to Artisan, but Adam quickly reassured them that there were no bloodfiends around. Still, they didn’t linger and hurried across, with Adam’s compass leading them towards a lone workshop with a gloomy store connected to it. It was built from wood and stone, and had just a single floor, which made it seem much older than the other buildings around it.

From the shopfront, they got a good look at what was inside.

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