56 - Vengeance will be mine

Antoine de Kunilemel, news and gossip reporter from the Hay and Gwair News and Gazette, has just filed his story about the poet, Carmel Weinz, who has taken sanctuary in the Happy Rover, across the river at the village of Llustat. It is there that the distressed writer reads the unpleasant calumnies that the Smokey Hack (as de Kunilemel is familiarly known amongst his colleagues) has written about her. In particular her behaviour towards Oud Ramonides is noted. Her scream is heard across the valley, and beyond as far as the Old Pull and Push Tavern where de Kunilemel is happily enjoying his fifth gin and tonic of the evening.