Chapter 70 - Chapter 71

Before Alistar knew it, dinner had come and gone. Thereafter, the party only persisted for an hour more, at which point Caedmon requested that the workers and servants begin to clean up. The adults had drunk a lot of wine today, a drink that Alistar would never have guessed had the effect of dulling one's senses and changing their behavior. Take Alder for instance, a man who was always light on his feet. He had drunk more wine than anyone else, and by the evening's end his movements were sluggish and dull, his short hair in complete disarray. The grease that normally added to his dignified look now held his dark strands in the silliest of positions, though the happy-faced man didn't seem to notice.