
When a red notice goes up on the board, my broth pot's always the first to know it. Today folks were pointing at one name with their fingers, pricing it out.
That price, how high did it climb today?
The mouth that sets the price never pays it.
I charge for the broth. The gossip's free.

When a red notice goes up on the board, my broth pot's always the first to know it. Today folks were pointing at one name with their fingers, pricing it out.

A page's been torn clean out of the ledger, and of all pages, it's the one from that winter seven years back. There was exactly one person who ran up a tab that winter and never paid it.