The hand is shaken, of course. No visible signs of checking for strength or anything, but there all the same.
'You too.' He calls a rat and doesn't order a hot spiced wine, or a fruit brandy as he normally would when it's evening and cold and he feels lazy. This time it's ale, cheap ale at that, and the rat is given brass coins as payment, nothing larger. 'I haven't seen you here before.'
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'You too.' He calls a rat and doesn't order a hot spiced wine, or a fruit brandy as he normally would when it's evening and cold and he feels lazy. This time it's ale, cheap ale at that, and the rat is given brass coins as payment, nothing larger. 'I haven't seen you here before.'