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[exequy]

Wanting to go home,

[ a page turns ]

badly enough to hand proof of slave trading to bastard foreign gamblers.

Why?

[wythersake]

They've written Riftwatch.

[ sure that's who they wrote ]

What language was this contract in?

[exequy]

What do they want?

[ Maybe he’ll answer Isaac’s question in a moment, maybe he won’t. ]

[wythersake]

To kiss and make up. What language was it, Kostos.

[exequy]

Trade, asshole. [ Fairly conversational in tone, by his standards. ] Repeated in Orlesian. I think. I do not read it.

[wythersake]

Does your brother? The barman said one of you tore it up.

[exequy]

At the docks. [ But he isn’t surprised about word getting around. It was a bit of a scene. ] I do not keep a list of Nikos’ talents. What the fuck does it matter?

[wythersake]

They dispute its interpretation, and we may not have a reference copy, or literate witnesses.

[exequy]

And that young man worked for whoever held it for twenty years because he felt like it?

[wythersake]

And, we're meant to presume, the pay. They sent more.

[exequy]

[ His scoff is very eloquent. ]

[wythersake]

Yes. But as we're without proof.

[exequy]

The Trade was clear. If they want to fight about whether the Orlesian controls, when it was traded here, and used to settle debts with a value that I am sure didn’t—didn’t take into account—

[ Ugh. ]

It is not as if anyone was ever going to hang her.

[wythersake]

No. But now there's a pile of untouchable money that Dalat won't take, that.

[ ugh. ]

Isn't it strange to you?

[exequy]

That they are trying to deny and cover up slavery?

[wythersake]

That they care at all for what happens in Kirkwall.

[exequy]

Why would that be strange?