Category: Lia

Farbello listens without interrupting. When she’s finished her recounting he samples his cereal. “The catering at the council meetings is very good.” There’s a long pause. “The security is not unusual; no red flags...

“I am a glutton where information is concerned.  I am interested in both perspectives.”  

Sarba acknowledges the order and returns to the kitchen. Farbello lifts his spoon and nibbles at the content. Seeming satisfied, he returns to the conversation. “So, if it is not pushing your boundaries of...

“This is just speculation.” He raises his eyes at the approach of the server with their meals. Maize Lamellas in Milk “Eggs benedict with mushrooms, maize lamellas.  May I bring you anything else?”   ...

He appears to consider the question for a time. “I would hazard, from what I know of him, that he appreciates it on two levels.  He is a fastidious and contained man, and I...

Farbello is silent for several long seconds, studying Lia.

“I didn’t know about the gift.  What was it that made you unguarded?”

“Local Overcrat Zang is a competent bureaucrat, but she lacks both the emotional stability and the ambition to rise any higher than she already has.   “I dare say, were it not for the informal...

“My Vizierate project assignment here on Mundo Zargo is essentially a political one.  So I must remind myself that not everyone is as deeply mired in local politics as I.  I don’t know if...