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He scratched the back of his neck sheepishly “Mostly Yes But listen, I’ve got the best idea And before you yell at me, just hear me out for a second” He lifted his hands up to his face, pal”

I raised an eyebrow at hi Really”

Florian scowled “Yes, really I’ve done this before, and I’ as I have access to raw un “And because I’ic and stuff, I can accelerate the process, redients I swear to you, we’llIt’ll be the best wine you’ve ever tasted Ever”

I shrugged “Can’t drink I’hteen, buddy”

“Even behind closed doors?”

I stiffened “It’s the principle of it”

He scratched his forehead, frowning harder “It was rhetorical, anyway The point is, people are going to love the stuff I ain: acceleration If we can find someone who’ll buy it, I can have a couple dozen bottles of the good stuff by the end of the week”

I chewed the corner of my bottom lip, still unconvinced “I’m iffy on this, Florian I like that you clearly – very clearly gave this a lot of thought”

He stuck his chest out, proud of his long, hard afternoon of

“But we’ll get shut down in no ti, to et in soalcohol and sell it wherever you want”

He cocked another finger-gun at“Or can you?”

I shut e of my nose “Florian Please Can you not?”

The sudden force grabbing me by the shoulders took ht of Florian’s face just dangerous inches away from mine My eyes ith terror, but at least he srass Maybe that was a dryad thing Sorry,

“You’re not thinking big enough, Mace,” Florian said, leaning in unco with excitability “We don’t live in the real world, reround You don’t sell to the norrocer down at the Black Market and sell through them Who needs per brewed by a bonafide, super handsome dryad?”

It all clicked for s “Florian I could kiss you I think you enius”