Because of his eyes, Shade did not leave the house all Monday. But by sheer coincidence, a client actually came knocking that afternoon.
Shade did not want to turn away a client who had finally made it to 6 Saint Derain Square, so he found a pair of plain glasses in Detective Sparrow's bedroom to somewhat conceal his eyes.
Detective Sparrow's eyesight was perfectly normal, so these glasses were probably a disguise prop as well.
The visitor was Mrs. Morse, who lived in western Tobesk. She had recently encountered one piece of good news and one piece of bad news.
The good news was that her uncle had unfortunately passed away and left her several local Tobesk shops, worth roughly four figures in Gold Pounds. The bad news was that before she told her husband, Mr. Morse, about this, she discovered that he had taken a lover.
To prevent her husband from taking part of the inheritance after she received it and using it to support his mistress, Mrs. Morse wanted to hire Detective Hamilton, who advertised in the Steam Bird Daily, to investigate whether the mistress existed and, if she did, who she was.
Investigations involving adultery and mistresses had been former detective Sparrow Hamilton's specialty, and Shade had finally encountered one.
"Um, may I ask whether the shops require much effort from you to operate? If you do not sell them, would they be enough to support you living alone in Tobesk?"
After learning the basic details, Shade asked this because he wanted to assess how much he should charge for the commission.
"The shops do not require much effort from me. I only need to check the accounts occasionally. As for the income—oh, Detective, it is absolutely enough to support a woman living alone and let her