“Neither have I,” Palamedes admits. While he has enjoyed discovering the variety of food on offer in Darrow, his choices have remained decidedly pedestrian—sandwiches, pizza, Chinese take-out, that sort of thing. While the wine bar isn’t excessively fancy, it isn’t the kind of place he has had reason to visit until now. “But I pass it so often, and it always looks awfully cheerful, you know?” They go in, and soon the pair are seated on the patio with menus in front of him. Pal peers over the wine list, which is full of descriptions that sound like the kind of thing that Historical Recreation would come up with after sampling too much of their experiments. “ ‘Slightly effervescent, with notes of cut grass and wet stone.’ Well, all right."