Pursuit of the Sun 1.2

What is your name? Are you satisfied with your current social and economic status? What attracts you to women? Do you have anything that fills your life with meaning and joy? Is there anything you would like to improve about your appearance? If a person is divided into five characteristics – strength, resilience, reflexes, intelligence, and will – which of them would you call your main virtue? Can you comment on your attitude towards the Void? Do you have a favorite dish and drink? What do you think about arthropods – spiders, centipedes, and so on? If you find a thousand gold coins under your pillow one day, what will you do with them?

With each question, the lackey becomes more and more frightened, but he holds on as best he can. He is a little over a meter seventy tall, with gray eyes, a narrow jaw, and an ordinary, unremarkable chin.
-- Ralph. Is this what life is all about? I'm satisfied. Well, when they're not too old or sick, I guess. I like beer, and when the regent holds feasts. A son was born a year ago, and so far, thank the Void, he's alive... Probably not. Let's say resilience... The Void exists, we all came from it and will return to it, it is everywhere, and it must be respected. Beer and roast pork. I'm afraid of them, they're poisonous. I... That doesn't happen, I'd probably faint. If not, I'll take it to the regent.

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She won't leave the house...

– But she did say that she was too old to leave the house, – Ottar recalled. – In response to one of my questions. While we're thinking, may I ask one unrelated question, master... Have you ever seen a woman with perfectly crimson hair? And red eyes... and lips...

What to do... we can't find the creature. We can either go to the boy or abandon this hopeless endeavor.

-- Ottar, are you feeling unwell again? The illness shouldn't affect you this much... Eyes can turn red from potions, hair can be dyed – who knows if it will fall out later, and the Silentians invented lipstick half a century ago. The probability that all of this happens at once is a thousandth of a percent. I've got it! We need to somehow get the key to the house. Make a copy. This is something that someone really skilled and brave with a potion can do.

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"Luxury is not affordable these days," Cassius thought and went to wash and visit the doctor.

Cassius is given a towel with a piece of soap and allowed into the hall. In the bathhouse, people not only wash and steam but also a small group of enthusiasts practice northern nude wrestling – they wave to Cassius in greeting.
-- Will you wrestle with us, champion?