Rusty Gauntlet

   Here’s the Rusty Gauntlet, thanks to Bottle, and Fiddler. First, mix the wine and rum in a regular glass, to showcase the drink’s ‘rusty’ color. But when you’re ready to drink it, pour it over in a nice old-fashioned pewter cup, if you have access to one. (Also available at Coop’s.)

   You won’t see me gobble up anything else, this Holiday season, not until I find out where you can get yourself a pint of real Malazan Dark…

   I wrote to one of my friends, and I said: ‘Next Saturday at the party, we’ll have a Rusty Gauntlet.’ He didn’t remember that little detail from the conclusion of The Bonehunters, so he went and made a Google search. Funny thing – Rusty Gauntlet has another meaning, completely outside the Malazan scope… So my friend said: ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ And he included the other definition in his reply.

   My sanity was forever damaged by what I read.

   I vigorously suggest nobody makes that Google search. Ever again. Some things are better left unknown, for Errant’s sake.

   Let’s agree. A Rusty Gauntlet is a drink, invented by Bottle, and nothing else.

   Cheers!