[HQ Ignorance] Scene 89: Palbar, City of the Oraya Sultanate

[Nic Hughes]

The pair had barely managed to find a tolerable bar in which to rest and 
eat, so Aalmon was not best pleased to have his first decent meal in 
weeks disturbed. He continued to sip at his wine and cut up his cow pie 
as the officer spoke, his only reaction a slight grimace at the mention 
of the fierce horsemen almost upon them. He raises one eyebrow to Icthya 
as if the whole thing were some private joke between them, then finished 
his cup of wine before replying.

"Well sir I am a courier and possibly the best in this frontier outpost. 
But I am a courier who already has a commission, one that takes me and 
my - ahem - package here to the North rather than to the West. My task 
has already brought me all the way from the far Western coast of this 
great land of ours and as far South as the land of the Dragons, I do not 
see how with honour I can abandon it to help you although I see your 
need is great. Unless you can somehow find a way in which helping you 
would aid my existing duties more than it hinders them?"

He begins to hungrily eat at his pie.

Nic


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