“ | Pink in the centre, but not bloody. Shenkt had never been able to understand people who liked their meat bloody, the notion disgusted him. | ” |
— Shenkt
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Neither Rich nor Poor is the forty-third chapter of Best Served Cold.
Chapter Summary
Shenkt approaches a group of five fellow assassins who have also been hired by Duke Orso. They are preparing to spring a trap on Monza who is in a shabby-looking hotel. The assassins agree to cut him in on the take, if he helps them capture Murcatto. Feigning agreement, Shenkt suddenly kills them all.
Meanwhile, Shivers is in a bedroom with Monza, with is passed out on the bed from husk. He himself has stopped partaking as he feels it was making him weak. Bored, he looks out the window, and sees three more assassins moving in the back door. Hiding behind the door, Shivers kills them as they enter the room, and dragging Monza with him as they flee.
When Shenkt enters the bedroom, he just finds only three dead assassins and Monza’s ring on the bedside table. Perusing the fresh corpses, he starts to take a butchers cleaver to one, taking some thigh meat and a liver to eat later with a special mix of Suljuk four-spice; Shenkt is an Eater.1
Characters
Introduced | Appeared | Mentioned |
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Shenkt | Grand Duke Orso | |
Caul Shivers | ||
Monza Murcatto |
Locations and Terms
Puranti | Styria | Husk | Eaters |
References
- Shenkt is quite the gourmet, an excellent cook, and an Eater who carries around a nice array of spices wherever he goes. He is a former apprentice of Bayaz like Yoru Sulfur who is also an Eater.