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Well ... anyway you cut it, you cannot see how you would not be served by getting through this last bit of shopping as quickly as possible. That would leave you with more time to scout potential places to stow the hand-cart, and with a little white luck, more options for your knock down of the Port Authority. Though there are other concerns than time at play here ... namely, the stocks and stuffs sold at Fishmongers are typically not as enduring as those sold at Green Grocers. So even if you are able to stuff up here, you might end up dumping a goodly portion of it later. That said, stocks and stuffs of Green Grocers are not eternal - and even if they were, you would still need to actually find one, wouldn't you?
You work your way over towards the Fishmonger, but you have not entirely made up your mind one way or the other yet - until you see the front door. Or rather, the sill of the front door; barely an inch off of the sidewalk - you will have a harder time getting off of the street and onto the walk than you will actually getting into the store. It is a relatively small thing, but at this point, it is enough to decide you. You glance at the outside displays of Mussels, Clams, Oysters and Little Whelk - still enticing looking, even though they all have been heavily picked over throughout the day. A young boy, clearly out here to mind the displays, notices your attentions ... but doesn't try to say anything. No doubt some - perhaps even most - would consider this a slight, but in light of how hard you have had to work - to lie - to buy even basic things, you are nothing but pleased by his silence. Sure, you are not being helped. But by the same token, you are not being <span class="mu-i">challenged</span> either.
And once you get your cart inside the stoop of the establishment, you are all the more pleased when you are immediately greeted by the sight - and smell - of persevered fish. That is certainly not the typical wares of a Fishmonger, so perhaps you should consider this place a ... Fish Market instead. Quibbles over the propriety of the name aside, you can see several things that you know straight-away that you are going to buy; first and foremost among them is the Whalescrap Jerky. And by the time that you finally make your way over to someone who you have to assume is the Fishmonger - or the Fish Merchant, or the ... Fish Marketer, uh ... yeah, just, you should just stick with Fishmonger - you have quite the list in your head of what you want. Considering that the last of the hours of closing is upon him, and much of the remaining stock is not going to last through the night, he is rather motivated to sell. You don't need to weave any tales - all you do is get the Talents out to show that you are serious and then get right into haggling. In the end, you are certain that you got 'soaked' on a couple of things, but you wouldn't go so far to say that you were cheated. And he gave you a couple of buckets for your live purchases.
