Banana: Anonymous Press - Overheard in le Fleur

[Gregory Rick/CAM/Lotus]

"Well, if du Pain gets his head taken off by a cannonball, you
can bet de Mylcandonai will claim that he didn't really feel that way at
all.  Where's that blasted waiter, I'm dry."

"Head taken off by a cannonball?  Was that the official story about de
Toilette?  Well, a friend of mine at the Arsenal tells me de Mylcandonai
keeps the head in his office, pickled in a jar, and the neck wound looks
suspiciously like a sabre cut..."