Truth is what you make of it.

"Pon!"

"Dora!"

"Uh, um, riichi?"

"Eric! Ivan! You didn't get either of those! Shut up!" Vanessa said.

Ah, damn it. I still don't get how to play this stuff! Mike did some voodoo shit with his hands and re-arranged the tiles for a new round.

"I don't get it. Out of all things, why would you start a patisserie?" Vanessa said.

"I thought that too. Why a patisserie of all things?" Eric chimed in.

"And that too in Shanshan. Won't you be expanding? Where will you get the Addicere to supply that?" Mike said.

Hah, so now these dimwits will question my extraordinary wits. I scoffed and crossed my legs. "Why patisserie, you ask... Eric, Vanessa, you both know what our main goal is in Elisbonear, right?"

"Get to the king?" Vanessa tilted her head and shuffled the tiles on her end.

"And get the artifact."