The liquid inside is clear and warm. It smells strongly of alcohol, causing my saliva glands to kick into overtime. Quickly I slurp down the drink, the liquid burning all the way down. You're not supposed to drink the sake. It's a bribe to the drunken madman outside town to open us a portal to the Walled Portals.
Xenon fishes out a few more pyreal and purchases another cup.
Oddly he doesn't hand me this one. We exit the tavern then head out of town. After Xenon of the Wind slays a group of Hunter Shreth the madman's tower appears before us. I walk up to the madman just to see how mad he really is. I have occupied this tower for years, the rats that infest it have become both my friends and my lovers.