The General nodded politely and gestured for me to follow him from the house.
There was a chariot waiting for us - the same kind as the one I had been taken to the Emperor in.
Cal followed behind us on foot, and I sat beside the General trying my hardest to remember the things that Rin had told me about him, and the behavior he seemed to favor in his companions.
I wanted to start a polite conversation with the man because he was rather withdrawn and he seemed nervous, but when I ran through all the facts I had been given about the man I realized I should have asked Rin to elaborate on a few of the things.
She had explained that the man had made a fortune importing exotic goods from Egypt, but then she told me he had a generous pension due to his honorable discharge from military servi
