21: Opening Night
Festag 1 4 th Sigmarzeit You woke up the next day, except you couldn’t wake Dietrich. No matter what you did he was still in a deep sleep and you decided that it must have been the wine. You had a vague memory of Peepopo but you couldn’t remember why he had been so important, but Heinrich was still a bit annoyed about him. You wondered whether to go back to Father Gunther, but you didn’t have much more to tell him. Max read the letter again and said that Euphrasia Nocturne meant something like night of good cheer. You went to a wine merchant on the Esplanade and he said he had never heard of it, and he’d not heard of Van Vriessen either. You decided to head up to Van Vriessen in Handelaarmarkt, and see what that was. Berta brought her hand cart in case you nee ded to cart some wine. Van Vriessen’ s was a walled compound with a house next to it, and when you knocked on the gate some young bloke answered it, and you told him that you had been sent by the Flamingo for some more wine...