>>5299090Solomon heaved a sigh, squatting down and stuck a bone pick between his teeth. "Just peachy. I can't grok how smoking works, mom banned us from drinking booze. And now a weird daughter asks us for directions. How am I supposed to de-stress?"
"Well, we could go clubbing at Cradleton." suggested Yan with a waggle of eyebrows. "Pay some bio, get wet and wild, with the women at Cradleton for an hour or two?"
Solomon stood up and slowly turned to give Yan a pointed stare. "No shot."
Yan gave a smug grin in response to his brother's increasingly incredulous stare.
"You mean to tell me that Cradleton, Mother-fucking Cradleton, The settlement reputed to be the literal whorehouse of the Crucible, survived their Hunger riot." Solomon stated.
Yan nodded.
"How."
"That Sol, I don't have the answers to." replied Yan with a shrug.
"Bullshit."
"Look, I'm just stating the facts that have been confirmed by the skinternet and multiple sources who were on-site at the time of the settlement's Hunger riot event." replied Yan raising his hand and oversized claw in a gesture of appeasement.
"Give me at least three names."
"For Cord's sake, Solomon. This isn't a cross-examination. You don't have to press me that hard for details."
"Names."
Yan nervously stared into his brother's narrowed eyes. Being on the receiving end of interrogations was one thing. but with Solomon's head replaced with that of one capable of a greater range of expressions, Yan couldn't help but squirm.
"Jun Andersen, Karey the Meat Merchant, Charlotte Webber, and..."
Solomon raised an eyebrow. "...And?"
"And one other...I know there's a fourth major actor involved in that event." explained Yan racking his head for more details.
"You're sure there's a fourth key witness involved in the event?" Solomon pressed.
Yan combed his hair with his non-augmented hand. "I'm certain of it. But for some reason I can't quite picture his face. I can only remember that the fourth witness was a male and said witness's name had the initials 'C.F'."
"And those witnesses are still alive?"
"Yup. And there are other survivors too."
"Were there any details released about what exactly went down in that settlement?"
Yan sighed. "That's the thing. The Hunger Riot was dealt with, but the events leading up to the Hunger riot and the events during the hunger riot itself have been kept tight, which is weird. It's like a giant gag order was issued towards both the settlement and the key witnesses to never speak of what happened there. Almost nothing could be pried from the skinternet about information related to the event."
Solomon let out a whistle. "It must've been a real messy high profile affair if the Crucible's reputed Red-light district had a settlement-wide agreement to try and forget the event through an orgy or something, but I can't help but feel here's something off with the motive. I mean why cause and then cover up an incident as damaging as a hunger riot?"
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