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...ved in a nice long discussion... about anything.
Sipping your coffee, you begin your stroll down the lively street, sizing up each of the many psychics and mystics and palm readers... waiting for one of them to strike you as a potential Nicolas Dias. Most of them are women. By the time you reach what appears to be the last of them, you've easily narrowed it down to just two possibilities; an old man with long gray hair, covered in jewelry and dark sunglasses, leaning back in his chair smoking a pipe behind an empty table, with no customers... and a man about your age, dressed almost as you are now, giving Tarot readings to a group of young women who are clearly very drunk.
Neither of them is anything like the Nicolas Dias you've been imagining, but Cal never actually gave you a physical description of him. Not even an approximate age...
Sipping your coffee, you begin your stroll down the lively street, sizing up each of the many psychics and mystics and palm readers... waiting for one of them to strike you as a potential Nicolas Dias. Most of them are women. By the time you reach what appears to be the last of them, you've easily narrowed it down to just two possibilities; an old man with long gray hair, covered in jewelry and dark sunglasses, leaning back in his chair smoking a pipe behind an empty table, with no customers... and a man about your age, dressed almost as you are now, giving Tarot readings to a group of young women who are clearly very drunk.
Neither of them is anything like the Nicolas Dias you've been imagining, but Cal never actually gave you a physical description of him. Not even an approximate age...
Dias may not be out tonight, you tell yourself. But if he is, he's one of those two men...
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