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

[Lev Lafayette]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 20:54 +0100, Nic Hughes wrote:
> 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.

"Insolence!", Satarnis shouts, thumbing his hand on the table and
upsetting Aalmon's drink and pie. "What could this package be that it is
more important than a message to save the city to Jar-eel herself?"